Visions in Arithmetic and Beyond: Celebrating Peter Sarnak's Work and Impact

(Joint with Samuel Grushevsky, Gabriele Mondello, Riccardo Salvati Manni) We determine the maximal dimension of a compact subvariety of the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties Ag for any value of g. For g<16 the dimension is g−1, while for g≥16, it is determined by the larged dimensional compact Shimura subvariety, which we determine. Our methods rely on deforming the boundary using special varieties, and functional transcendence theory.

Starting with the "Leibniz" formula for π

 

π/4=1−1/3+1/5−1/7+…

 

the special values of Dirichlet L-functions have long been a source of fascination and frustration. From Euler's solution in 1734 of the Basel problem to Apery's proof in 1978 that zeta(3...

Cohen, Lenstra, and Martinet have given highly influential conjectures on the distribution of class groups of number fields, the finite abelian groups that control the factorization in number fields. Malle, using tabulation of class groups of number...