Path integrals and p-adic L-functions

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• Minhyong Kim (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences)
• Monday 20 June 2022, 09:45-10:45
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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KA2W02 - Arithmetic geometry, cycles, Hodge theory, regulators, periods and heights

In the 1960s, Barry Mazur noticed an analogy between knots and primes that led to a view of the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory in which the p-adic L-function plays the role of the Alexander polynomial. In the late 1980s, Edward Witten reconstructed the Jones polynomial as a path integral-in the sense of quantum field theory-associated to SU(2) Chern-Simons theory. This talk will review some of this history and present a weak arithmetic analogue of Witten’s formula. (This is joint work with Magnus Carlson, Hee-joong Chung, Dohyeong Kim, Jeehoon Park, and Hwajong Yoo.)

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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