A venue for invited and local speakers to present their research on topics surrounding algebraic geometry and number theory, broadly conceived. All meetings start at 14:10 sharp and end at 15:10. Meetings are held in 201. We expect to broadcast most meetings over Zoom at the URL

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84776059631?pwd=D1BRE1heMcDazcQCZ70Aa6auiaI6ip.1

Meeting ID: 847 7605 9631 Passcode: 521044

However, if at all possible, attendees are asked to come in person.

The seminar meets on Wednesdays, 14:10-15:10, in 201

This Week


Yotam Svoray (HUJI)

Bounds on the F-Pure Threshold of Isolated Hypersurface Singularities

The use of the Frobenius map to understand singularities in positive characteristics has been a crucial and important tool in modern algebraic geometry. In addition, it allows us to develop “characteristic p” analogous to several technique over complex varieties that use differetial forms and L^2 analysis. In this talk we focus on the concept of the F-pure threshold, show how we can compute it in several cases, and how we can use it to bound the log canonical threshold of complex polynomials. This talk is partially based upon arXiv:2606.04014.


2025–26–B meetings

Upcoming Meetings

Date
Title
Speaker
Abstract
Jun 24 Bounds on the F-Pure Threshold of Isolated Hypersurface SingularitiesOnline Yotam Svoray (HUJI)

The use of the Frobenius map to understand singularities in positive characteristics has been a crucial and important tool in modern algebraic geometry. In addition, it allows us to develop “characteristic p” analogous to several technique over complex varieties that use differetial forms and L^2 analysis. In this talk we focus on the concept of the F-pure threshold, show how we can compute it in several cases, and how we can use it to bound the log canonical threshold of complex polynomials. This talk is partially based upon arXiv:2606.04014.

Past Meetings

Date
Title
Speaker
Abstract
May 20 The Simplicial Cylinder DG Ring Amnon Yekutieli (BGU)

The Keller cylinder DG ring encodes homotopies between DG ring homomorphisms f_0, f_1 : A \to B.

Recently we discovered the higher cylinder DG rings Cyl_q(B), which assemble into the simplicial cylinder DG ring Cyl(B). For q=1 this recovers Keller’s original construction.

The sets SHom_q(A,B) of DG ring homomorphisms A \to Cyl_q(B) form the simplicial Hom set SHom(A,B). Our main result is that when A is a semi-free DG ring, the simplicial set SHom(A,B) is a Kan complex.

We prove several results about the fundamental groupoid SHom_{\leq 1}(A,B), including invariance under quasi-isomorphism B’ \to B, and that the automorphism groups are abelian. We also indicate some applications of this work.

Typed notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sMzwoC_DGCotOfak8o8wYpmttgZELf6l/view

arXiv eprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11943

Jun 3 Voevodsky’s “geometric” criterion for 6-functor formalisms with applications to the stable motivic homotopy theory of complex analytic stacks Roy Magen (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

In this talk I will present some enhancements and generalizations of a criterion for six-functor formalisms first sketched by Voevodsky in 2001. This principle was then implemented by Ayoub in order to show that the stable motivic homotopy theory of quasi-projective schemes has the structure of a six-functor formalism, although it has later been generalized by works of Cisinski, Déglise, Hoyois, Khan, and Ravi, leading to a six-functor formalism of genuine stable motivic homotopy theory on qcqs derived algebraic stacks with separated diagonals and nice stabilizers.

In our framework, we produce six-functor formalism using the cohomological behaviour of smooth maps, closed immersions, and smooth proper maps (where the relevant cohomological property is expressed by a version of Atiyah duality). This is related to recent results of Dauser-Kuijper and Cnossen-Lenz-Linskens, which enhances work of Mann following Liu-Zheng on the construction of six-functor formalisms using the cohomological behaviour of étale maps and proper maps. Our general results are then used to produce a six-functor formalism of complex analytic stable motivic homotopy theory, as well as equivariant analytification functors that are compatible with the six operations.

Jun 10 Uniqueness of Motivic Fargues-Fontaine Cohomology Kaixing Cao (Hannover)

The discovery of the Fargues–Fontaine curve has led to major advances in the geometrization of $p$-adic Hodge theory. In this talk, we explain how several $p$-adic cohomology theories can be realized as vector bundles on the Fargues–Fontaine curve. We then present a motivic approach to show the uniqueness of such vector bundles, which, in particular, yields comparison theorems for them. Moreover, we show that one can choose a canonical comparison isomorphism between these vector bundles.