陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Distinguished Lecture Series III: Shou-wu Zhang, “Triple L-series and effective Mordell co」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

On Thursday Shou-wu Zhang concluded his lecture series by talking about the higher genus case , and in particular focusing on some recent work of his which is related to the effective Mordell conjecture and the abc conjecture . The higher genus case is substantially more difficult than the genus 0 or genus 1 cases, and one often needs to use techniques from many different areas of mathematics (together with one or two unproven conjectures) to get somewhere.

This is perhaps the most technical of all the talks, but also the closest to recent developments, in particular the modern attacks on the abc conjecture. (Shou-wu made the point that one sometimes needs to move away from naive formulations of problems to obtain deeper formulations which are more difficult to understand, but can be easier to prove due to the availability of tools, structures, and intuition that were difficult to access in a naive setting, as well as the abilit

已知结果和反例

As discussed in the first lecture , one of the landmark achievements in the higher genus theory is Faltings’ theorem (proving the Mordell conjecture), which asserts that if C is a curve of genus defined over the integers, then the set of rational points is finite; another way of saying this is that an equation of the form which is “inherently” of degree 4 or more, in that it cannot be solved via algebraic manipulations which only require solving polynomial equations of degree

There are many proofs of Faltings theorem (Mordell’s conjecture), but they are all ineffective in the sense that they do not provide an upper bound for the height h(P) of the rational points P, which one can define naively as one plus the logarithm of the largest numerator or denominator of the coordinates of P (roughly speaking, this is the number of bits needed to write down P). The (naive) effective Mordell conjecture asserts that in fact , where h(C) can be defined as the

证明或构造的主线

The naive notion of height is somewhat artificial and extrinsic (i.e. it is affected by changes of coordinate); it would be preferable to have a more intrinsic , and hence more geometric notion of height. (Indeed, geometry can almost be defined as the study of those notions which are intrinsic; cf. Klein’s Erlangen program .) One reason for this is one can use the intrinsic geometry to prove deep and sharp inequalities, for instance establishing an inequality by establishing

Shou-wu made the point that Arakelov theory offers such an intrinsic notion of height. To explain this, he started with a curve C and first formed an integral model of C (I presume this would be a scheme) by making all coefficients integer, resolving singularities, and compactifying various things. In particular, the spectrum of the integers (i.e. the primes) is compactified by adding the Archimedean place . There are a number of ways to see why it is natural to group the pla

阅读时建议盯住的点

[Incidentally, Shou-wu made the point that it was this compactification of the spectrum which distinguishes number theory from algebra; as he put it, “in number theory we care about the size of our solutions, and not just their number”.]

Anyway, with this integral model X (or more generally, a model over a number field k) we can use Arakelov theory to construct two invariants over k:

值得单独记下的条目

• A numeric quantity , which was also not defined but was supposed to count the number of singularities in fibers of X and is analogous to the second Chern class.
• The Hodge index theorem , which can establish non-negativity of self-intersections of classes under certain conditions;
• The theory of stable bundles (i.e. sheaves F which have greater slope than all their sub-sheaves).

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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