Charles De Clercq

Équipe Topologie Algébrique


Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Institut Galilée, LAGA, UMR 7539

Case C-3
Ave J.-B. Clément
F-93430, Villetaneuse
France
Email : declercq∅math.univ-paris13.fr

Bureau D-409



I learned mathematics in Paris and my mathematical family, N. Karpenko, A. Merkurjev, A. Suslin and A. Yakovlev come from St. Petersburg, Russia.

I mainly work around the two following areas of research :
  • with Mathieu Florence, we introduced the notion of smooth profinite groups, whose purpose is to try to deduce from an enhancement of Kummer theory for fields lifting theorems for mod p Galois representations, aiming at providing a proof of a generalized version of the Norm Residue Isomorphism Theorem, proved by Rost, Suslin, Voevodsky and Weibel (also known as the Bloch-Kato conjecture).
  • I study motives and upper motives of projective homogeneous varieties for reductive algebraic groups. I introduced motivic equivalence for these groups, constructed the discrete invariants (the higher Tits p-indexes) which control it, providing a complete classification of reductive groups of (p-)inner type in terms of the motives of their twisted flag varieties. We also extended these result for all absolutely simple groups (except groups of type 6D4), developping the theory of A-upper motives (joint work with Nikita Karpenko and Anne Quéguiner-Mathieu).