The Steinberg Representation
2026TheorySean Cotner
An introduction to the Steinberg representation of a finite group of Lie type — its alternating-sum construction from parabolic inductions, worked out explicitly for SL_2.
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The torsion component of the Picard scheme
2026OtherBogdan Zavyalov
Every finite flat commutative group scheme over a noetherian local ring is the torsion component of the Picard scheme of a smooth projective scheme with 3-dimensional fibers, built as a quotient of a complete intersection. An application: Hodge numbers that jump in a smooth projective family.
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Some examples of algebraic groups
2026TheorySean Cotner
Two pathological phenomena for algebraic groups over general bases — a group degenerating between the multiplicative and additive group across a DVR, and a non-affine identity component — built as centralizers in SL_n.
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CMI 2000, The Millennium Prize Problems
2026Problem sheet
The Millennium Meeting, Paris, 24 May 2000, at which the seven problems were announced.
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An example of a non-reduced Picard scheme
2026TheorySean Cotner
An example, due to Serre, of a smooth projective surface in positive characteristic whose Picard scheme fails to be reduced, worked out via the two governing dimension inequalities.
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Finite flat commutative group schemes embed locally into abelian schemes
2026TheorySean Cotner
A proof of Raynaud's theorem: every finite flat commutative group scheme over a locally noetherian base embeds, Zariski-locally, as a closed subgroup of an abelian scheme.
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A curiosity: “supersmooth” varieties
2026TheorySean Cotner
A rigidity condition on schemes, strictly stronger than smoothness, introduced with examples and a look at where it fails to be geometric — no known application, just a curiosity.
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NSF Research Fellow and postdoc at the University of Bonn. Previously an NSF Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, and before that a graduate student at Stanford, advised by Brian Conrad. Interested in arithmetic geometry, algebraic groups (broadly construed), and integral questions connected to the local Langlands program.