Tag Archives: Vesselin Dimitrov

Arbeitsgemeinschaft 2026

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Persiflage

The April 2026 Oberwolfach Arbeitsgemeinschaft will be on Arithmetic Holonomy Bounds and Applications to Irrationality, and in particular will discuss some of the results of this paper. For those who don’t know, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft (“study group”) is different from usual … Continue reading →

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A talk on my new work with Vesselin Dimitrov and Yunqing Tang on irrationality

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Persiflage

Here is a video of my talk from the recent 70th birthday conference of Peter Sarnak. During a talk one always forgets to say certain things, so I realized that my blog could be a good place to give some … Continue reading →

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Deciphering Quanta

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Persiflage

Sometimes it is claimed that Quanta articles are so watered down of mathematical content that they become meaningless. That presents a challenge: do I understand the quanta article on my own work? Here goes: New Proof Distinguishes Mysterious and Powerful … Continue reading →

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The future is now; recap from Cetraro

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Persiflage

I’ve just returned from the second Journal of Number Theory biennial conference in Italy. It’s always nice to get a chance to see slices of number theory one wouldn’t otherwise see at the conferences I usually go to (although this … Continue reading →

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Vesselin Dimitrov on Schinzel–Zassenhaus

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Persiflage

Suppose that \(P(x) \in \mathbf{Z}[x]\) is a monic polynomial. A well-known argument of Kronecker proves that if every complex root of \(P(x)\) has absolute value at most 1, then \(P(x)\) is cyclotomic. It trivially follows that, for a non-cyclotomic polynomial, … Continue reading →

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