Mikhail Vol'fovich Borovoi (Russian: Михаи́л Во́льфович Борово́й, Hebrew: מיכאל בורובוי, born February 17, 1951) is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician. He has worked on Galois cohomology and on the arithmetic of linear algebraic groups, homogeneous spaces, Shimura varieties, and spherical varieties.
Education and career
Borovoi was born in Moscow. He obtained his diploma (M.Sc.) in Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, and his Ph.D. at the Leningrad Department (now: St. Petersburg Department) of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics [1] in 1980; his doctoral advisor was Arkady L. Onishchik. Because of Antisemitism in the Soviet Union of the time, Borovoi could not find a job as a mathematician, and only with the start of Perestroika, in 1987 he got a position of a Senior Researcher at the Khabarovsk Division of the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences [2] in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk. He spent the 1990-1991 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study. [2] Since 1992 he has been at Tel Aviv University, [2] where now he is Professor Emeritus. [3]
Research
Borovoi is known for the Borovoi fundamental group [4] of a reductive group. Jointly with James S. Milne, [5] Borovoi proved [6] Shimura's conjecture in the theory of Shimura varieties, which was the subject of Borovoi's invited talk [7] at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berkeley, 1986. He proved that the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only obstruction to the Hasse principle and weak approximation for homogeneous spaces of connected linear algebraic groups over number fields with connected geometric stabilizers. [8] Jointly with Cyril Demarche, he proved a similar result for the Brauer-Manin obstruction to strong approximation [9]
References
- ^ Mikhail Borovoi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c Page of Mikhail Borovoi in the List of Scholars of the Institute for Advanced Study
- ^ List of Professors Emeriti of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- ^ Laurent Fargues and Peter Scholze, Geometrization of the local Langlands correspondence, https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13459, p. 90
- ^ James S. Milne, The action of an automorphism of C on a Shimura variety and its special points. Arithmetic and Geometry, Vol. I, 239-265, Progr. Math., 35, Birkhäuser Boston, Boston, MA, 1983.
- ^ M. V. Borovoi, Langlands' conjecture concerning conjugation of connected Shimura varieties. Selecta Math. Soviet. 3 (1983/84), no. 1, 3–39.
- ^ M. V. Borovoi, Conjugation of Shimura varieties. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1 (Berkeley, Calif.,1986), 783-790, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1987.
- ^ Mikhail Borovoi, The Brauer-Manin obstructions for homogeneous spaces with connected or abelian stabilizer. J. Reine Angew. Math. 473 (1996), 181-194, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/crll.1995.473.181.
- ^ Mikhail Borovoi and Cyril Demarche, Manin obstruction to strong approximation for homogeneous spaces. Comment. Math. Helv. 88 (2013), no. 1, 1-54, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4171/CMH/277.