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Title: Is there a smallest algebraic integer?
Speaker: Vesselin Dimitrov
Speaker Info: University of Toronto
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The Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture describes the narrowest collar width around the unit circle that contains a full set of conjugate algebraic integers of a given degree, at least one of which lies off the unit circle. I will explain what this conjecture precisely says and how it is proved. The method involved in this solution turns out to yield some other new results whose ideas I will describe, including to the closest interlacing of Frobenius eigenvalues for abelian varieties over finite fields, the closest separation of Salem numbers in a fixed interval, and the distribution of the short Kobayashi geodesics in the Siegel modular variety.