Departmental Colloquium

Event Information Maps from the Generic Riemann Surface
16:10 on Wednesday April 05, 2017
17:00 on Wednesday April 05, 2017
BA6183, Bahen Center, 40 St. George St.
Robert Guralnick

University of Southern California

We investigate the properties of a map of degree n from a generic Riemann surface of genus g to the Riemann sphere. Zariski, in this thesis, answered a question of Enrique, by showing there are no solvable maps from the generic Riemann surface of genus greater than 6. Using the classification of finite simple groups, one can prove a much stronger theorem.