Endomorphisms of varieties
Organizers
Speaker
Burt Totaro
Time
Thursday, April 23, 2026 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Venue
A6-101
Online
Zoom 638 227 8222
(BIMSA)
Abstract
Which complex projective varieties admit an endomorphism of degree greater than 1? This seems to be an extremely restrictive property; it is expected that all examples can be built from toric varieties or abelian varieties. We describe the known methods and results on this problem. The case of del Pezzo surfaces with du Val singularities required some new ideas to resolve.