醉月湖講座Lakeside Lecture Series

演講者：Professor Jun-Muk Hwang (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
講 題：Sphere packing for symplectic lattices
時 間：2012年11月12日 (星期一) 14:00~15:00
地 點：臺灣大學天文數學館202室
茶 點：13:30~14:00
摘 要：
Symplectic lattices are lattices in Euclidean space with certain extra-symmetries associated to Hermitian forms. They correspond to principally polarized abelian varieties in algebraic geometry. Classical examples are given by period lattices of compact Riemann surfaces. Our theme is the density of sphere  packing for symplectic lattices. In their seminal work in 1994, Buser and Sarnak showed that period lattices of compact Riemann surfaces give remarkably poor sphere packing. Following Buser-Sarnak's work, many interesting relations between the density of sphere packing for symplectic lattices and algebro-geometric properties of corresponding abelian varieties have been discovered. We will give an overview of this subject with a report on a recent work on period lattices of Prym varieties, another important class of symplectic lattices arising from algebraic geometry.
主辦人：Yi-Chiuan Chen, Kin-Ming Hui, Jeremy Wong, Jeng-Daw Yu