Arithmetic geometry
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In mathematics, arithmetic geometry is roughly the application of techniques from algebraic geometry to problems in number theory.[1] Arithmetic geometry is centered around Diophantine geometry, the study of rational points of algebraic varieties.[2][3]
In more abstract terms, arithmetic geometry can be defined as the study of schemes of finite type over the spectrum of the ring of integers.[4]
Overview
The classical objects of interest in arithmetic geometry are rational points:
The structure of algebraic varieties defined over non-algebraically closed fields has become a central area of interest that arose with the modern abstract development of algebraic geometry. Over finite fields,
History
19th century: early arithmetic geometry
In the early 19th century, Carl Friedrich Gauss observed that non-zero integer solutions to homogeneous polynomial equations with rational coefficients exist if non-zero rational solutions exist.[8]
In the 1850s,
Early-to-mid 20th century: algebraic developments and the Weil conjectures
In the late 1920s, André Weil demonstrated profound connections between algebraic geometry and number theory with his doctoral work leading to the Mordell–Weil theorem which demonstrates that the set of rational points of an abelian variety is a finitely generated abelian group.[10]
Modern foundations of algebraic geometry were developed based on contemporary
In 1949,
Mid-to-late 20th century: developments in modularity, p-adic methods, and beyond
Between 1956 and 1957,
In the 1960s, Goro Shimura introduced Shimura varieties as generalizations of modular curves.[20] Since the 1979, Shimura varieties have played a crucial role in the Langlands program as a natural realm of examples for testing conjectures.[21]
In papers in 1977 and 1978, Barry Mazur proved the torsion conjecture giving a complete list of the possible torsion subgroups of elliptic curves over the rational numbers. Mazur's first proof of this theorem depended upon a complete analysis of the rational points on certain modular curves.[22][23] In 1996, the proof of the torsion conjecture was extended to all number fields by Loïc Merel.[24]
In 1983, Gerd Faltings proved the Mordell conjecture, demonstrating that a curve of genus greater than 1 has only finitely many rational points (where the Mordell–Weil theorem only demonstrates finite generation of the set of rational points as opposed to finiteness).[25][26]
In 2001, the proof of the local Langlands conjectures for GLn was based on the geometry of certain Shimura varieties.[27]
In the 2010s,
See also
- Arithmetic dynamics
- Arithmetic of abelian varieties
- Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
- Moduli of algebraic curves
- Siegel modular variety
- Siegel's theorem on integral points
- Category theory
- Frobenioid
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