Behrouz Taji: D-modules workshop talk

Presenter: Behrouz Taji, UNSW Sydney
28 September 2023
Abstract: My aim in this talk is to discuss how various discoveries in the theory of variation of Hodge structures, including Saito’s Hodge modules, can be used to establish a striking geometric fact (originally due to Arakelov, Migliorini and Kovács): ​Over C* the only smooth projective family of curves of genus higher than 1​,​ or more generally canonically polarized ​complex manifolds​, is the isotrivial one.​ This talk is roughly based on works of Popa-Schnell and myself joint with Kovács.
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