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Nonsingular quantum corrections to electron hydrodynamics in graphene

In recent times the hydrodynamic behaviour of electrons in graphene has attracted much interest from both the theoretical and experimental viewpoints. The usual approach to graphene hydrodynamics is &...

Real versus complex plane curves

We prove that a smooth, complex plane curve of odd degree can be defined by a polynomial with real coefficients if and only if it is isomorphic to its complex conjugate; there are counterexamples in e...

From the Uniform to the Minimum Spanning Tree

Abstract: A spanning tree of a graph G is a connected subset of G without cycles. The Uniform Spanning Tree (UST) is obtained by choosing one of the possible spanning trees of G at random. The Minimum...

The spectrum of fault slip behavior and precursor to failure, what can we (machine) learn on earthquake prediction?

Abstract: Earthquakes and tectonic fault slip are among the most hazardous and unpredictable natural phenomena. Fluids play a key role in tectonic faulting and recent research suggests that fluids are...

Analog quantum simulation of partial differential equations

Quantum simulators were originally proposed to be helpful for simulating one partial differential equation (PDE) in particular – Schrodinger’s equation. If quantum simulators can be useful for simulat...

Heat equation from a deterministic dynamics

We derive the heat equation for the thermal energy under diffusive space-time scaling from a purely deterministic microscopic dynamics satisfying Newton equations perturbed by an external chaotic forc...

Raviolo vertex algebras, higher current algebras, and raviolo conformal blocks

Vertex algebras formalise the properties of what physicists would call operator product expansions (OPEs) in chiral conformal field theories (CFTs). One way to motivate the axioms of vertex algebras i...

Some Results on Thompson Groups, Their Unitary Representations, a Knot Construction by Jones, and on some Cuntz Algebras

Abstract: In 2014, Vaughan Jones introduced methods to construct unitary representations of Thomp- son groups F, T, V (from planar algebras or Cuntz algebras) and another to produce knots from th...

The Hodge conjecture for sixfolds of generalized Kummer type

The Hodge conjecture is a central problem in modern algebraic geometry. It is notoriously difficult to attack, and we still lack general evidence towards its validity. In my talk I will present a proo...