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SUMMARY:Canonical heights and the Andre-Oort conjecture - Ananth Shankar (
 University of Wisonsin)
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CONTACT:Rong Zhou
DESCRIPTION:Let S be a Shimura variety. The Andre-Oort conjecture posits t
 hat the Zariski closure of special points must be a sub Shimura subvariety
  of S. The Andre-Oort conjecture for A_g (the moduli space of principally 
 polarized Abelian varieties) — and therefore its sub Shimura varieties 
 — was proved by Jacob Tsimerman. However\, this conjecture was unknown f
 or Shimura varieties without a moduli interpretation. I will describe join
 t work with Jonathan Pila and Jacob Tsimerman (with an appendix by Esnault
 -Groechenig) where we prove the Andre Oort conjecture in full generality.
LOCATION:https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92192959944?pwd=OVJ3d0pJS3RRaWh
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