Monthly Archives: August 2009

B-N-R Part 2: Moduli of Vector Bundles

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Charles Siegel

Last time, we talked about twisted endomorphisms.  Now, we’re moving on to the second paragraph of the paper: generalized theta divisors.  In the meantime, we’re going to have to talk a bit about vector bundles and their moduli.

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B-N-R Part 1: Twisted Endomorphisms

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Charles Siegel

Alright, I’m back, and newly married (thus the long hiatus from posting).  And now it’s time to get back to math.  I’m currently attempting to read a paper by Beauville, Narasimhan and Ramanan titled “Spectral Curves and the Generalized Theta … Continue reading →

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Shih’s Theorem

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Jim Stankewicz

Dear Readers, In spite of orals closing in a little more every day, I clearly haven’t been updating so much recently. I’d started a post about using Minkowski’s geometry of numbers to think about class numbers and unit groups and … Continue reading →

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