University of Calgary

General Infrastructure in Global Fields and Baby Step-Giant Step Algorithms

Submitted by jlongwor on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 11:00am.
May 27 2008 - 3:00pm
May 27 2008 - 4:00pm
Speaker: 
Felix Fontein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Location: 
MS 371
In this talk, I will introduce the idea of infrastructures and present a general interpretation of the infrastructure in global fields. The main emphasis lies on giant steps. After that, I will talk about baby
step-giant step algorithms for computing fundamental units.