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General

My mathematical research interest lies in algebraic number theory. I am now working on Iwasawa theory, which is regarded as the best way to understand the arithmetic meaning of zeta and L-values of various motives. Especially, Iwasawa main conjectures give the precise connection between the congruence properties of the special values of L-functions (p-adic L-functions) and the (dual of) Selmer groups of a given motive. Many interesting arithmetic properties are encoded in Selmer groups; for example, in the case of elliptic curves, Selmer groups contain the information of the rational points of elliptic curves (Mordell-Weil groups) and the failure of the local-global principle (the p-primary part of Tate-Shafarevich groups).

Research Themes

  • Anticyclotomic Iwasawa theory for modular forms à la Bertolini-Darmon, Gross, and Vatsal.
  • Overconvergent construction of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions.
  • A bit more explicit computation of Bloch-Kato's exponential and dual exponential maps.
  • Kato's Euler systems (ref. The paper, Colmez's Bourbaki seminar).
  • Integral periods of modular forms.
  • Arithmetic applications of modularity lifting theorems.
  • Arithmetic applications of p-adic local Langlands correspondence (ref. Repr\'{e}sentations p-adiques de groupes p-adiques One, Two, and Three).
  • Refined Iwasawa theory and the structure of Selmer groups.
  • Hida and Coleman families.
  • p-adic variation of Euler and Kolyvagin systems.
  • Kato's epsilon conjecture.
  • Applications of machine learning (or any ``applied mathematics") to number theory (Hope I can do this soon..)

    Math Writings

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    My Erd\"{o}s number is 4 (Chan-Ho Kim - Tom Weston - Chantal David - Antal Balog - Paul Erd\"{o}s).

  • On the adjoint Selmer groups of semi-stable elliptic curves and Flach's zeta elements
          submitted
  • The refined Tamagawa number conjectures for GL_2
          with an appendix in collaboration with Robert Pollack
          preprint available upon request
  • The structure of Selmer groups and the Iwasawa main conjecture for elliptic curves
          submitted; video lecture at ICTS
  • Refined applications of Kato's Euler systems for modular forms
          submitted
  • On the Iwasawa invariants of Kato's zeta elements for modular forms
          with Jaehoon Lee and Gautier Ponsinet
          submitted
  • An anticyclotomic Mazur-Tate conjecture for modular forms
          submitted
  • On the anticyclotomic Mazur-Tate conjecture for elliptic curves with supersingular reduction
          to appear in Bertolini's 60th birthday conference proceedings
  • A user's guide to Beilinson-Kato's zeta elements (expository)
          to appear in the proceedings of the ICTS program "Elliptic curves and the special values of L-functions"
  • On the mod p Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves (pdf)
          with R. Sujatha
          Class Groups of Number Fields and Related Topics, December 2024, pp. 25--48
          ICCGNFRT (International Conference on Class Groups of Number Fields and Related Topics) 2021 and 2022 conference proceedings
  • A higher Gross-Zagier formula and the structure of Selmer groups (arXiv)
          Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 377, No. 5, May 2024, pp. 3691--3725
  • On the quantitative variation of congruence ideals and integral periods of modular forms (arXiv)
          with Kazuto Ota
          Research in the Mathematical Sciences, 2023, Vol. 10, Article number 22
  • Anticyclotomic main conjecture and the non-triviality of Rankin-Selberg L-values in Hida families (arXiv)
          with Matteo Longo
          Journal of Number Theory, September 2023, Vol. 250, pp. 183--205
  • An explicit comparison of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions for Hida families (arXiv)
          with Matteo Longo
          International Journal of Number Theory, 2023, Vol. 19, No. 9, pp. 2021--2050
  • On the soft p-converse to a theorem of Gross-Zagier and Kolyvagin (arXiv)
          Mathematische Annalen, 2023, Vol. 387, pp. 1961--1968
  • A proof of Perrin-Riou's Heegner point main conjecture (arXiv)
          with Ashay A. Burungale and Francesc Castella
          Algebra \& Number Theory, Vol. 15 (2021), No. 7, pp. 1627--1653 (It's the revised version of this article.)
  • Indivisibility of Kato's Euler systems and Kurihara numbers (expository)
          with an appendix by Alex Ghitza
          RIMS K\^{o}ky\^{u}roku Bessatsu, 2021, B86, pp. 63--86; the relevant Sage code is available.
  • On the refined conjectures on Fitting ideals of Selmer groups of elliptic curves with supersingular reduction (arXiv)
          with Masato Kurihara
          International Mathematics Research Notices, Volume 2021, Issue 14, July 2021, pp. 10559--10599
  • On the indivisibility of derived Kato's Euler systems and the main conjecture for modular forms (arXiv)
          with Myoungil Kim and Hae-Sang Sun
          Selecta Mathematica, New Series, 2020, Vol. 26, Issue 2, Article Number 31
  • Remarks on Kato's Euler systems for elliptic curves with additive reduction (arXiv)
          with Kentaro Nakamura
          Journal of Number Theory, 2020, Vol. 210, pp. 249--279
  • Overconvergent quaternionic forms and anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions (arXiv)
          Publicacions Matem\`{a}tiques, Vol. 63 (2019), No. 2, pp. 727--767
  • Variation of anticyclotomic Iwasawa invariants in Hida families (pdf)
          with Francesc Castella and Matteo Longo
          Algebra \& Number Theory, Vol. 11 (2017), No. 10, pp. 2339--2368
  • On the freeness of anticyclotomic Selmer groups of modular forms (pdf)
          with Robert Pollack and Tom Weston
          International Journal of Number Theory, July 2017, Vol. 13, No. 06, pp. 1443--1455
  • Anticyclotomic Iwasawa invariants and congruences of modular forms (pdf) (This is my thesis.)
          Asian Journal of Mathematics, June 2017, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 499--530

    Edited

  • Lecture note on local class field theory (99 pages)
          written by 9 Korean graduate students for the preparation of the instructional workshop on class field theory
          non-refereed and not intended for publication; available upon request

    In preparation (to push myself..)

  • (title undecided, something on p-adic L-functions over the eigencurve), with Kentaro Nakamura
          in progress
  • (title undecided, something on Eisenstein ideals anc Deligne-Soule's cyclotomic elements), with Gyujin Oh
          in progress
  • (title undecided, something on Conjecture A), with R. Sujatha
          in progress
  • (title undecided, something on Flach-Weston's algebraic cycles), with Ryotaro Sakamoto
          in progress
  • (title undecided, something on Eisenstein congruences), with Kenichi Namikawa
          in progress
  • (title undecided, something on Eisenstein series and theta functions), with Yeong-Wook Kwon
          in progress
  • (title undecided, something on Heegner points over function fields), with Yoonjin Lee
          in progress

    List of talks I've given:

  • 2025/06/25-07/04, Iwasawa 2025, NCTS, Taiwan
  • 2025/02/06-07, Annual Number Theory 2025, CNU, Gwangju, Korea
  • 2024/10/17-19, Workshop on Mathematical Challenges 2024, Forest Resom Hotel & Resort, Jecheon, Korea
  • 2024/07/26, Development of Iwasawa theory (in honor of the 60th birthday of Masato Kurihara), Keio University, Japan
  • 2024/07/17, Pan Asia Number Theory Conference 2024, Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 2024/05/17, SNU
  • 2024/03/11-13, UNIST
  • 2024/01/04, Special values of L-functions, Sanya, China
  • 2023/08/08-09 Jeonbuk National University
  • 2023/06/21, KAIST
  • 2023/06/02, Seoul National University
  • 2023/05/16 Keio University, Yokohama, Japan (online)
  • 2023/04/28, 2023 KMS Spring Meeting, Daejeon
  • 2023/03/31, Korea University
  • 2023/01/09, Algebraic and Analytic Aspects of L-functions, Sheraton Grand Incheon Hotel, Incheon
  • 2022/12/5, Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry session, The 2022 Pacific Rim Mathematical Association Congress
  • 2022/11/26, JBNU
  • 2022/11/16, SUSTech, Shenzhen, China (online)
  • 2022/08/18, Elliptic curves and the special values of L-functions, ICTS, India (online)
  • 2022/06/07, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (online)
  • 2022/05/17-6/7, SNU, Seoul, Korea (online)
  • 2022/04/21, UCSB, US (online)
  • 2022/03/19, Keio University (online)
  • 2022/03/16, Sun Yat-sen University, China (online)
  • 2021/10/20, Build a network of young researchers in mathematics II, KMS (online)
  • 2021/10/15, UCSC, US (online)
  • 2021/09/14, 2021 Yonsei Workshop on Elliptic Curves, Yonsei University (online)
  • 2021/09/06-09, UNIST (online)
  • 2021/08/02-07, Introduction to Beilinson-Kato elements and their applications, ICTS, India (online)
  • 2021/05/03, Webinar in Number Theory, French-Korean IRL in Mathematics (online)
  • 2021/02/25, Arizona State University (online)
  • 2021/02/20, Annual Number Theory workshop 2021 (online)
  • 2021/01/28, University College Dublin (online)
  • 2020/11/12, L-values and Iwasawa Theory (online)
  • 2020/10/26, Keio University (online)
  • 2020/10/24, 2020 KMS Annual Meeting (online)
  • 2020/08/26, 3rd Chennai-Tirupati Number Theory Conference, IIT Madras (online)
  • 2020/07/13-24, UNIST (online)
  • 2020/05/20, Heilbronn Number Theory Seminar, University of Bristol, UK (online)
  • 2019/11/20, CMC special weeks on number theory, KIAS
  • 2019/10/09, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
  • 2019/08/08, KIAS
  • 2019/05/31, Padova school on Serre conjectures and the $p$-adic Langlands program, Padova, Italy
  • 2019/05/16, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2019/05/14, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2019/03/15, SNU, Seoul, Korea
  • 2019/02/12, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2018/12/04, Keio-Yonsei Joint Workshop, Keio, Yokohama, Japan
  • 2018/11/27, Algebraic number theory and related topics 2018, RIMS, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2018/10/05, Advances on automorphic forms and related topics, COEX, Seoul
  • 2018/06/26, Workshop on Number Theory and Algebra, Yeosu, Korea
  • 2018/04/09, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
  • 2018/03/22, Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, China
  • 2018/02/12, The 7th Number Theory Festival, UNIST, Korea
  • 2018/02/07, The 7th East Asia Number Theory Conference, TIMS, Taiwan
  • 2017/11/03, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea
  • 2017/11/01, Postech, Pohang, Korea
  • 2017/09/14, Workshop on $p$-adic $L$-functions and algebraic cycles, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2017/04/19, UNIST
  • 2017/04/17, UNIST
  • 2017/04/13, KIAS
  • 2017/02/21, The 6th Number Theory Festival, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
  • 2017/01/20, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • 2017/01/13, Waseda University, Japan
  • 2016/11/14, Keio University, Japan
  • 2016/09/21, UNIST
  • 2016/04/28, Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, China
  • 2016/02/15, The 5th Number Theory Festival, Kyungnam University, Korea
  • 2016/02/02, 2016 Korea-Japan Joint Number theory Seminar, Postech, Korea
  • 2016/01/29, Sendai International Conference on Arithmetic Geometry in 2016, Tohoku University, Japan
  • 2015/11/27, Industrious Number Theory, KIAS
  • 2015/09/21, Postech
  • 2015/08/25, Arithmetic of Euler systems, Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque, Spain
  • 2015/07/28, KAIST
  • 2015/07/23, Pan Asian Number Theory 2015, Sanya, China
  • 2015/04/09, Caltech
  • 2015/03/16, Universit\'{e} Laval, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada
  • 2014/12/23, KIAS
  • 2014/11/04, University of Chicago
  • 2014/11/03, Northwestern University
  • 2014/08/29, Postech
  • 2014/04/17, UCSD
  • 2014/03/03, UCLA
  • 2013/10/01, UC Irvine
  • 2013/09/12, Qu\'{e}bec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar, Montreal, Canada
  • 2013/01/08, Workshop on modular forms and Galois representations, KIAS
  • 2012/12/17, Keio University, Japan
  • 2012/11/05, BU

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  • Pontryagin dual and mu invariants
  • Ring homomorphisms
  • *Ordinary* Galois representations
  • Ordinary local Galois invariants
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