SMS scnews item created by Pamela Guzman at Mon 24 May 2010 1159
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 25 May 2010
Calendar1: 25 May 2010 1400-1500
CalLoc1: Carslaw 175
CalTitle1: Postgraduate Seminar: Zhang -- L functions, p-adic numbers and the class number formula
Auth: pamelag(.ampgrad;1539.16000)@p80724.pc.maths.usyd.edu.au

Postgraduate Seminar: Yinan Zhang -- L functions, p-adic numbers and the class number formula

We began by a brief introduction on complex L functions and the p-adic number system,
followed by examining p-adic L functions.  This will be linked back to the analytic
class number formula and how it helps with my goal of computing the p part of the class
group.  

The talk will be fairly basic and introductory since the concept is probably unfamiliar
to most people, and there won’t be much (if at all) analysis in detail.