A New Proof of the Catalan Conjecture

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:Preda Mihailescu (University of Göttingen)
: 2024-10-31 15:30
:Conference Room C503 at Administration Building at Haiyun Campus

Speaker:Preda Mihailescu (University of Göttingen)

Time:2024-10-31, 15:30

Location:Conference Room C503 at Administration Building at Haiyun Campus

Abstract:

In this talk we will introduce a new proof of the Catalan Conjecture. This is a recent result, with Chang Liu, and it use the discovery of certain hidden multiplicative characters, which allow to avoid the use of Thaine's theorem and work in the minus part of the class group.