Vikram Bhagvandas Mehta

{{short description|Indian mathematician (1946–2014)}}

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Vikram Bhagvandas Mehta (August 15, 1946 – June 4, 2014) was an Indian mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and vector bundles. Together with Annamalai Ramanathan he introduced the notion of Frobenius split varieties, which led to the solution of several problems about Schubert varieties.{{Cite journal|last=Bhagvandas Mehta|first=Vikram|last2=Ramanathan|first2=Annamalai|date=July 1985|title=Frobenius splitting and cohomology vanishing for Schubert varieties|url=https://annals.math.princeton.edu/?s=Vikram+Bhagvandas+Mehta&search-field=|journal=Annals of Mathematics|volume=122|issue=1|pages=27–40|doi=10.2307/1971368|issn=0003-486X|jstor=1971368}} He is also known to have worked, from the 2000s onward, on the fundamental group scheme. It was precisely in the year 2002 when he and Subramanian published a proof of a conjecture by Madhav V. NoriM. V. Nori On the Representations of the Fundamental Group, Compositio Mathematica, Vol. 33, Fasc. 1, (1976), p. 29-42 that brought back into the limelight the theory of an object that until then had met with little success.V. B. Mehta, S. Subramanian On the Fundamental Group Scheme, Inventiones mathematicae, 148, 143-150 (2002)