Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Date: April 30, 2019

Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: BLOC 220

Speaker: Mark Shusterman, UW Madison

Title: Balanced presentations for fundamental groups of curves over finite fields

Abstract: We show that the algebraic fundamental group of a smooth projective curve over a finite field admits a finite topological presentation where the number of relations does not exceed the number of generators.