Shanna Dobson, University of California, Riverside
2022 AWM Research Symposium
Women, Art, and Mathematics (WAAM)
In this talk, we present our exciting literary incarnations of perfectoid diamonds, in the sense of Scholze, appearing in our newest fantastical mathematical-fiction novel, Artemis Blu II: Infinity Diamonds in Infinity Diapsalmata. The first incarnation is a new idea of a perfectoid-diamond hourglass, which measures emergent time as a Carrollian "looking-glass" of perfectoid diamonds, which are certain pro-'etale sheaves on the category of perfectoid spaces of characteristic p. The second is a reinterpretation of the Deleuzian concept of ‘haecceity' as a pro-diamond, when Artemis awakens inside the diamond hourglass.