The University of Sydney
School of Mathematics and Statistics  
Number Theory Seminar  

University of Sydney Number Theory Seminar

John Voight

Thursday 27 April, 4:05-4:55PM, Carslaw 375

Fields of definition for CM-types

After a bit of motivation and review, we discuss two propositions from Shimura (cf. section 8.5) which relate to the field of definition of a CM type. Time permitting, we will also answer two questions of Kohel.