Séminaire Géométrie et théorie des modèles

Let X be a set definable in some o-minimal structure. The Pila-Wilkie theorem (in its basic form) states that the number of rational points in the transcendental part of X grows sub-polynomially with the height of the points. The Wilkie conjecture stipulates that for sets definable in R_exp, one can sharpen this asymptotic to polylogarithmic.I will describe a complex-analytic approach to the proof of the Pila-Wilkie theorem for subanalytic sets. I will then discuss how this approach leads to a proof of the `restricted Wilkie conjecture', where we replace R_exp […]

I will discuss some problems which are analogous to, but formally not comprehended within, the Zilber-Pink conjecture, involving collections of `special subvarieties' connected with uniformization maps of suitable domains.

Au début des années 2000, Haskell, Hrushovski and Macpherson ont décrit les ensembles interprétables dans un corps valué algébriquement clos à l'aide d'équivalents en plus grande dimension des boules. Plus précisément, ils ont prouvé l'élimination des imaginaires dans le language géométrique. Pendant la même période, l'intérêt des théoriciens des modèles pour les corps valués avec opérateurs s'est grandement développé. Les questions résolues pour ces structures tournent, pour la plupart, autour de l'élimination des quantificateurs et de la modération. Mais, au vu des résultats de Haskell, Hrushovski and Macpherson, il est […]

Let k be a field and let P be a lattice polygon, i.e. the convex hull in R^2 of finitely many non-collinear points of Z^2. Let C/k be the algebraic curve defined by a sufficiently generic Laurent polynomial that is supported on P. A result due to Khovanskii states that the geometric genus of C equals the number of Z^2-valued points that are contained in the interior of P. In this talk we will give an overview of various other curve invariants that can be told by looking at the […]

I will discuss joint work with Martin Bridson and Martin Liebeck which addresses the question: for which collections of finite simple groups does there exist an algorithm that determines the images of an arbitrary finitely presented group that lie in the collection? We prove both positive and negative results. For a collection of finite simple groups that contains infinitely many alternating groups, or contains classical groups of unbounded dimensions, we prove that there is no such algorithm. On the other hand, for a collection of simple groups of fixed Lie […]

P-minimality is a concept that was developed by Haskell and Macpherson as a p-adic equivalent for o-minimality. For o-minimality, the cell decomposition theorem is probably one of the most powerful tools, so it is quite a natural question to ask for a p-adic equivalent of this.In this talk I would like to give an overview of the development of cell decomposition in the p-adic context, with an emphasis on how questions regarding the existence of definable skolem functions have complicated things. The idea of p-adic cell decomposition was first developed […]

The TAC (torsion anomalous conjecture) states that for an irreducible variety V embedded transversaly in an abelian variety A there are only finitely many maximal V-torsion anomalous varieties. It is well know that the TAC implies the Mordell-Lang conjecture. S. Checcole, F. Veneziano and myself were trying to prove some new cases of the TAC. In this process we realised that some methods could be made not only effective but even explicit. So we analysed the implication of this explicit methods on the Mordell Conjeture. Namely: can we make the […]

In 1923, Dulac published a proof of the claim that every real analytic vector field on the plane has only finitely many limit cycles (now known as Dulac's Problem). In the mid-1990s, Ilyashenko completed Dulac's proof

Let G be a connected reductive group over C. One can associate with every spherical homogeneous space G/H its lattice of weights X^*(G/H) and a subset S of M of linearly independent primitive lattice vectors which are called the spherical roots. For any subset I of S we define, up to conjugation, a spherical subgroup H_I in G such that dim H_I = dim H and X^*(G/H_I) = X^*(G/H). We call the subgroups H_I the satellites of the spherical subgroup H. Our interest in satellites H_I is motivated by the […]

On présentera un résultat de type Ax-Lindemann pour les produits de courbes de Mumford sur un corps p-adique. Notre preuve reprend en l'adaptant les grandes lignes de l'approche de Pila dans le cas archimédien. En particulier nous utilisons un théorème de Pila-Wilkie p-adique obtenu avec R. Cluckers et G. Comte. Il s'agit d'un travail en commun avec A. Chambert-Loir.

On sait que les ensembles semi-algébriques p-adiques admettent une décomposition cellulaire semblable à celle des semi-algébriques réels (Denef 1984). On sait aussi les classifier à bijection semi-algébrique près (Cluckers 2001), mais pas à homéomorphismes semi-algébriques près. En introduisant une notion appropriée de simplexe sur les corps p-adiquement clos, on peut montrer que tout ensemble semi-algébrique p-adique est semi-algébriquement homéomorphe à un complexe simplicial p-adique, exactement comme dans le cas réel clos. C'est ce résultat récent de `triangulation p-adique' que je tâcherai de présenter, avec ses applications les plus directes (existence […]

Je présente un formalisme combinatoire pour l'étude des dégénérescences des séries linéaires dans une famille de courbes algébriques. J'en déduis quelques applications dont notamment l'équirépartition selon la mesure admissible de Zhang des points de ramification des fibrés en droite sur les courbes de Berkovich, un analogue non-archimédien du théorème de Mumford-Neeman. Je discuterai aussi la question de la convergence de la mesure d'Arakelov vers la mesure de Zhang dans une famille de surfaces de Riemann.