Bianca Viray

  1. Computing Automorphism Groups of Rational Functions.

    Authors: Bianca Viray, Xander Faber, Michelle Manes
    Subjects: Number Theory
    Abstract

    Let phi be an endomorphism of the projective line of degree at least 2,
    defined over a noetherian commutative ring R with unity. We show that the
    automorphism group of phi is a finite group scheme, and we construct algorithms
    to compute it when R is a finite field or a number field. We also give an
    algorithm for determining when two such endomorphisms are conjugate. We have
    implemented these algorithms in Sage when R is a finite field or the field of
    rational numbers.

  2. Transcendental Brauer elements via descent on elliptic surfaces.

    Authors: Bianca Viray
    Subjects: Algebraic Geometry
    Abstract

    Transcendental Brauer elements are notoriously difficult to compute. Work of
    Wittenberg, and later, Ieronymou, gives a method for computing 2-torsion
    transcendental classes on surfaces that have a genus 1 fibration with rational
    2-torsion in the Jacobian fibration. We use ideas from a descent paper of
    Poonen and Schaefer to remove this assumption on the rational 2-torsion.

  3. A family of varieties with exactly one pointless rational fiber.

    Authors: Bianca Viray
    Subjects: Number Theory
    Abstract

    We construct a concrete example of a 1-parameter family of smooth projective
    geometrically integral varieties over an open subscheme of P^1_Q such that
    there is exactly one rational fiber with no rational points. This makes
    explicit a construction of Poonen.

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