Monthly Archives: October 2019

En Passant VI

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Persiflage

I just learnt (from a comment on this blog) that Pierre Colmez hosts a wonderful page on Fontaine and Wintenberger here. I particularly recommend reading both the personal recollections of their friends and collaborators (sample quote from Mark: These \(p\)-adic … Continue reading →

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Appropriate Citations

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Persiflage

Once I wrote a paper (two, in fact) on even Galois representations. The second paper in particular proved what I thought was a fairly definitive result ruling out the existence of a wide class of even de Rham representations with … Continue reading →

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A homework exercise for Oaxaca

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Persiflage

Here’s a homework problem for those coming to Oaxaca who have a facility for working with Breuil-Kisin modules and finite flat group schemes. Let \(\mathbf{F}\) be a finite field of characteristic \(p\), and consider a Galois representation: \(\rho: G_{\mathbf{Q}_p} \rightarrow … Continue reading →

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Read my NSF proposal

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Persiflage

Since this is NSF season, I took the opportunity to go back and look at some of my old proposals. I am definitely too shy to put my *most recent* proposal online, but I thought it might be interesting to … Continue reading →

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