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2018-02-05
16:00 - 16:50

101 , Mathematics Research Center Building (ori. New Math. Bldg.)

The determinant of the Galois action on the l-adic cohomology of the middle degree of a proper smooth variety of even dimension defines a quadratic character of the absolute Galois group of the base field.

In this talk, we show that for a complete intersection of even dimension in a projective space, the character is computed via the square root of the discriminant of the defining polynomials of the variety.