Speaker:
Professor Cristian Popescu
Institution:
UCSD
Time:
Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - 3:00pm
Location:
MSTB 256
We discuss a refinement of the Rubin-Stark Conjecture for abelian L-functions of arbitrary order of vanishing at s=0. This generalizes Gross's v-adic refinement of the abelian, order of vanishing 1, integral Stark Conjecture and predicts a link between special values of derivatives of p-adic and global L-functions. Time permitting, we will also show how our refinement relates to a recent strengthening of Gross's Conjecture due to Tate.