Speaker:

Jesse Kass:

Title:

How to make Poincaré Duality into a regular morphism

Abstract:

Poincaré Duality of a smooth complex curve -- the duality isomorphism that describes how cycles intersect -- can be realized by a holomorphic map between complex manifolds called the Abel map. Starting with the definition of the Abel map, I review this result and then explain how it extends to singular curves. In doing so, I describe the compactified Jacobian of a curve with ordinary n-fold singularities and, if time permits, discuss some connections with Dima Arinkin's work on autoduality. This work is joint with Kirsten Wickelgren.