The moduli space of pointed hyperelliptic curves over finite fields

Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 11:00

427 Thackeray Hall

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Bogdan Ion
University of Pittsburgh

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Let $\mathcal{H}_{g,n}$ denote the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves of genus $g$ with $n$ marked points. In preparation for next week's talk by Adrian Diaconu, I will discuss the basic results concerning counting the number of points of $\mathcal{H}_{g,n}$ over a finite field (or, equivalently, the $\ell$-adic equivariant Euler characteristic of $\mathcal{H}_{g,n}$ with coefficients in local systems) and the cohomological stability theorem of J. Bergström.

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