Partitions Detect Primes - Portale dello Studente

Lunedì 14 ottobre 2024 alle ore 16:00, presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, si terrà un colloquium di teoria dei numeri del prof. Ken Ono (University of Virginia) dal titolo "Partitions Detect Primes".

Abstract: This talk presents “partition theoretic” analogs of the classical work of Matiyasevich that resolved Hilbert’s Tenth Problem in the negative. The Diophantine equations we consider involve equations of MacMahon’s partition functions and their natural generalizations. Here we explicitly construct infinitely many Diophantine equations in partition functions whose solutions are precisely the prime numbers. To this end, we produce explicit additive bases of all graded weights of quasimodular forms, which is of independent interest with many further applications. This is joint work with Will Craig and Jan-Willem van Ittersum.

Locandina