D-modules Seminar - Fall 2012

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General Information

Meeting Time MW 12:20-1:15
Location 206 Vincent Hall

Upcoming Lectures

  • Ben Brubaker (Automatic proof of identities)
  • Lecture Notes

    Date

    Topic

    #1
    Monday,
    Sept. 10
    Overview of D-modules, Part I
    #2
    Wednesday,
    Sept. 12
    Overview of D-modules, Part II
    #3
    Monday,
    Sept. 17
    Overview of D-modules, Part III
    #4
    Wednesday,
    Sept. 19
    Introduction to the Weyl Algebra
    #5
    Monday,
    Sept. 24
    Differential operators
    #6
    Wednesday,
    Sept. 26
    Modules for the Weyl algebra
    #7
    Monday,
    Oct. 1
    The Bernstein filtration
    #8
    Wednesday,
    Oct. 3
    Noetherian modules
    #9
    Monday,
    Oct. 8
    Dimension and multiplicity I
    #10
    Wednesday,
    Oct. 10
    Dimension and multiplicity II
    #11/12
    Mon.-Wed.,
    Oct. 15/17
    Holonomic modules I and II
    #13
    Monday,
    Oct. 22
    Tensor and exterior products
    #14
    Wednesday,
    Oct. 24
    Characteristic varieties
    #15
    Monday,
    Oct. 29
    Almost commutative algebras
    #16
    Wednesday,
    Oct. 31
    Bernstein's thm on analytic continuation
    #17
    Monday,
    Nov. 5
    Gabber's thm on stability under Poisson bracket I
    #18
    Wednesday,
    Nov. 7
    Gabber's thm on stability under Poisson bracket II
    #19/20
    Monday,
    Nov. 12
    Gabber's thm on stability under Poisson bracket III/IV
    #21/22
    M-W,
    Dec. 5, 7
    Kashiwara's theorem on D-modules under embeddings I, II
    #23
    Mon
    Dec. 10
    Asymptotic stability of autonomous systems

    Further Reading:

  • Here are old course notes of Victo Ginzburg on D-modules, from a course given at Chicago in 1998.
  • Gelfand's 1954 ICM address. This appeared in Messing's first example. See in particular pp. 262-263 for the result quoted in the talk.
  • Garrett's notes on Bernstein's proof of the above conjecture.