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Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

I will begin with a general introduction to some of the ideas I am interested in, for which a guiding motivation is to understand a “Lagrangian version” of the theory of algebraic cycles (Chow groups, Griffiths groups, etc), as suggested by mirror symmetry.
I will present an instance in which algebraic behaviour can be recovered symplectically, by a Lagrangian version of the classical Ceresa cycle story. The _Ceresa cycle_ of a curve is a 1-cycle in its Jacobian and provided one of the first examples of a homologically trivial cycle which is not _algebraically_ trivial. The Lagrangian construction involves the tropical version of the Ceresa cycle story, due to Zharkov. It also requires introducing an equivalence relation on Lagrangians ‘mirror’ to algebraic equivalence, called _algebraic Lagrangian cobordism_.

Further information

Time:

04Feb
Feb 4th 2026
14:15 to 15:15

Venue:

CMS MR13

Series:

Algebraic Geometry Seminar