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Title: Arithmetic families of torsors
Speaker: Jacob Tsimerman
Speaker Info: Harvard
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Suppose G is a group scheme over the function field Q(t), and X is a torsor for G such that X_t is trivial for almost all rational numbers t. Must X itself be trivial? We discuss several results regarding this question, both positive and negative. This is joint work with Andrew Snowden.