In this chapter, we study elliptic curves defined over finite fields. Our discussion will include the Weil conjectures for elliptic curves, criteria for supersingularity and a description of the possible groups arising as E(Fq). We shall use basic algebraic geometry of elliptic curves. Specifically, we shall need the notion and properties of isogenies of elliptic curves and of the Weil pairing....

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In this paper, we investigate the geometric properties of random hyperbolic surfaces of large genus. We describe the relationship between the behavior of lengths of simple closed geodesics on a hyperbolic surface and properties of the moduli space of such surfaces. First, we study the asymptotic behavior of Weil-Petersson volume Vg,n of the moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces of genus g with n...

We introduce differentiable stacks and explain the relationship with Lie groupoids. Then we study S-bundles and S-gerbes over differentiable stacks. In particular, we establish the relationship between S-gerbes and groupoid S-central extensions. We define connections and curvings for groupoid S-central extensions extending the corresponding notions of Brylinski, Hitchin and Murray for S-gerbes ...

Every point in Teichmüller space is a hyperbolic metric on a given Riemann surface, therefore, a Weil-Petersson geodesic in Teichmüller space can be viewed as a 3-manifold. We investigate the sectional curvatures of this 3-manifold, with a natural metric. We obtain explicit formulas for the curvature tensors of this metric, and show that the “average”s of them are zero, and hence the geometry o...

Three lectures on elliptic surfaces and curves of high rank Noam D. Elkies Over the past two years we have improved several of the (Mordell–Weil) rank records for elliptic curves over Q and nonconstant elliptic curves over Q(t). For example, we found the first example of a curve E/Q with 28 independent points P i ∈ E(Q) (the previous record was 24, by R. Martin and W. McMillen 2000), and the fi...

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