Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
- chair: Bjorn Poonen
- The first meeting of the reading group will be Tuesday, January 25, 11-12. It will be in the 2nd floor seminar room if that room is available.
- Informal reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
- Reading list (in increasing order of sophistication):
- MR0750661 Cohen, H. ; Lenstra, H. W., Jr. Heuristics on class groups. Number theory (New York, 1982), 26--36, Lecture Notes in Math., 1052, Springer, Berlin, 1984.
- MR0756082 (85j:11144) Cohen, H. ; Lenstra, H. W., Jr. Heuristics on class groups of number fields. Number theory, Noordwijkerhout 1983 (Noordwijkerhout, 1983), 33--62, Lecture Notes in Math., 1068, Springer, Berlin, 1984.
- MR1837670 (2003a:11065) Delaunay, Christophe. Heuristics on Tate-Shafarevitch groups of elliptic curves defined over Q. Experiment. Math. 10 (2001), no. 2, 191--196.
Delaunay, Christophe. Formes modulaire et invariants de courbes elliptiques définies sur Q. Thèse, Université Bordeaux I, 2002.
PDFs of these have been placed in Poonen's public directory at MSRI. Type cd ~bpoonen/Public at a terminal prompt.