Notiziario Scientifico

Settimana dal 16 al 22 settembre 2013


Martedì 17 settembre 2013
Ore 9:00, Aula Picone
P(n) school on Recent Trends in Nonlinear PDEs
9:00 Takashi Suzuki (Osaka University), Elliptic and parabolic equations on planar domains, I
11:15 Pavol Quittner (Comenius University), Long-time behavior of solutions of semilinear parabolic problems, I


Martedì 17 settembre 2013
Ore 11:00, Aula Dal Passo, Università di Roma II
Stephen Donkin (Università di York)
On the calculation of the cohomology of line bundles on flag varieties in characteristic p, III
Let G be an reductive algebraic group (for example a special linear group) and let B be a Borel subgroup (i.e., a maximal closed connected solvable subgroup). The representation theory of G is closely related to the algebraic geometry of the quotient space G/B. In characteristic 0 this connection is succinctly summarized by the Borel-Bott-Weil Theorem. This shows in particular that the cohomology of a line bundle is non-zero in at most one degree and its character is either a Weyl character or 0. In characteristic p the connection between the representation theory and geometry still exists and has been extremely useful (in work by Haboush, Andersen, Jantzen and others). Nevertheless there is no known analogue of the Borel-Bott-Weil Theorem. Earlier work (e.g. that of Andersen and Humphreys) has focused on the module structure of the cohomology spaces. However, concentrating only on the character one can get complete information in some low rank cases using infinitesimal methods. So far the cases worked out completely are G = SL(2) (classical), G = SL(3) (Donkin), and G = Sp(4) in characteristic2 (Donkin and Geranios). We describe an approach to this problem using infinitesimal methods and how they may be used to give recursive formulas for the characters of the cohomology of line bundles in favorable circumstances.


Martedì 17 settembre 2013
Ore 11:00, Aula 311, Università di Roma III
Seminario di Probabilità
Agelos Georgakopoulos (Università di Warwick)
Discrete conformal uniformisation and the Poisson boundary
Answering a question of Benjamini and Schramm, we show that the Poisson boundary of any planar, uniquely absorbing (e.g. one-ended and transient) graph with bounded degrees can be realised geometrically as a circle, namely as the boundary of a tiling of a cylinder by squares. For this, we introduce a general criterion for identifying the Poisson boundary of a stochastic process that might have further applications. The talk will be self-contained, assuming no prior knowledge of the mentioned terminology, and will contain many pictures.


Martedì 17 settembre 2013
Ore 14:30, Aula 211, Università di Roma III
Seminario di Fisica Matematica
Maria G. Westdickenberg (Università di Aachen)
Order and disorder: The competition between energy and entropy in randomly perturbed systems
Although at first glance a stochastic perturbation destroys the stability of energy minimizers, the probabilistic theory of large deviations reveals that the 'most likely' pathways actually solve their own minimization problem. The well-established theory of large deviations for diffusion processes treats stochastically driven rare events in ordinary differential equations. The theory is particularly attractive because it generalizes naturally to stochastic partial differential equations. Recently, there has been progress in pushing large deviation theory to the limit and probing new regimes. In this talk, we are interested in the competition between energy and entropy that emerges in the case of small noise and large system size. We present some recent results in the context of the 1-d Allen-Cahn equation and explain the proofs, which combine probabilistic and deterministic methods.


Martedì 17 settembre 2013
Ore 15:00, Aula 311, Università di Roma III
Seminario di Analisi e Sistemi Dinamici
Giovanni Pisante (Università di Napoli)
Second order analysis for a non local isoperimetric problem in microphase separation
In this talk we consider a non-local isoperimetric problem arising as the sharp interface limit of the Ohta-Kawasaki free energy introduced to model microphase separation of diblock copolymers. We can perform a second order variational analysis that allows us to provide a quantitative second order minimality condition. We will show that critical configurations with positive second variation are indeed strict local minimizers of the nonlocal perimeter. Moreover we provide, via a suitable quantitative inequality of isoperimetric type, an estimate of the deviation from minimality for configurations close to the minimum in the L^1 topology. Aim of the presentation will be to explain how to perform variations for non-local variational functionals and to sketch how to combine the regularity theory for quasi minimizers of the area functional and a suitable penalization argument to prove the quantitative minimality estimate. The presentation is based on a recent joint work with Vesa Julin.


Mercoledì 18 settembre 2013
Ore 9:00, Aula Picone
P(n) school on Recent Trends in Nonlinear PDEs
9:00 Camillo De Lellis (Universitat Zurich), From Nash to Onsager: funny coincidences across differential geometry, PDEs and the theory of turbulence, I
11:15 Takashi Suzuki (Osaka University), Elliptic and parabolic equations on planar domains, II
15:00 Pavol Quittner (Comenius University), Long-time behavior of solutions of semilinear parabolic problems, II


Mercoledì 18 settembre 2013
Ore 15:00, Aula 311, Università di Roma III
Seminario di Analisi e Sistemi Dinamici
Enrico Valdinoci (Università di Milano)
Concentration phenomena for nonlocal equations
Given a smooth domain Omega, s in (0,1), p in (1,frac[n+2s][n-2s]) and a small epsilon > 0, we consider the nonlocal equation epsilon^[2s] (-Delta)^s u + u = u^p with Dirichlet datum. We construct solutions that concentrate at interior points of the domain. The proof, as it often happens in these type of problems, uses a scaling blow up of the space variable by a factor epsilon^[-1] and an appropriate LyapunovSchmidt bifurcation argument. Nevertheless, several important differences arise here. In particular, the leading of the reduced energy functional in this case is not exponential, but polynomial with respect to the distance from the boundary. The exponent of such asymptotics is also quite unexpected, namely it is n+4s, which is different from the decay of the fundamental solution of (-Delta)^s (that is n-2s), from the one of 1+(-Delta)^s (that is n+2s), from the one of the ground state of the associated Schroedinger equation (that is again n+2s) and also from the order in epsilon of the corrector for the equatuion (once more, n+2s). The competition among these different exponents causes of course some technical difficulties, that can be overcome by a careful analysisof the nonlocal Robin function.


Giovedì 19 settembre 2013
Ore 9:00, Aula Picone
P(n) school on Recent Trends in Nonlinear PDEs
9:00 Camillo De Lellis (Universitat Zurich), From Nash to Onsager: funny coincidences across differential geometry, PDEs and the theory of turbulence, II
11:15 Matthew J. Gursky (University of Notre Dame), Some fully nonlinear equations in geometry, I
15:00 K Sandeep (TIFR, Bangalore), Semilinear elliptic problems in the hyperbolic space, I


Giovedì 19 settembre 2013
Ore 11:00, Aula Dal Passo, Università di Roma II
Stephen Donkin (Università di York)
On the calculation of the cohomology of line bundles on flag varieties in characteristic p, IV
Let G be an reductive algebraic group (for example a special linear group) and let B be a Borel subgroup (i.e., a maximal closed connected solvable subgroup). The representation theory of G is closely related to the algebraic geometry of the quotient space G/B. In characteristic 0 this connection is succinctly summarized by the Borel-Bott-Weil Theorem. This shows in particular that the cohomology of a line bundle is non-zero in at most one degree and its character is either a Weyl character or 0. In characteristic p the connection between the representation theory and geometry still exists and has been extremely useful (in work by Haboush, Andersen, Jantzen and others). Nevertheless there is no known analogue of the Borel-Bott-Weil Theorem. Earlier work (e.g. that of Andersen and Humphreys) has focused on the module structure of the cohomology spaces. However, concentrating only on the character one can get complete information in some low rank cases using infinitesimal methods. So far the cases worked out completely are G = SL(2) (classical), G = SL(3) (Donkin), and G = Sp(4) in characteristic2 (Donkin and Geranios). We describe an approach to this problem using infinitesimal methods and how they may be used to give recursive formulas for the characters of the cohomology of line bundles in favorable circumstances.


Giovedì 19 settembre 2013
Ore 11:00, Aula 211, Università di Roma III
Seminario di Geometria
Angela Ortega (Università di Berlino)
Pryms of non-cyclic triple covers and log canonical models of the spin moduli space of genus 2


Giovedì 19 settembre 2013
Ore 14:00, Aula 211, Università di Roma III
Seminario di Geometria
Jun-Muk Hwang (Korean Institute for Advance Studies)
Fano manifold of Picard number 1 with isotrivial VMRT-structure
Let X be a nonsingular subvariety in projective space covered by lines. For a point x in X, denote by C_x the subvariety of the projective tangent space of X at x, corresponding to the set of lines through x lying on X. When the family C_x is isotrivial as x varies over general points of X, we say that X has isotrivial VMRT-structure. We will discuss the question "is a Fano manifold of Picard number 1 with isotrivial VMRT-structure quasi-homogeneous"? We will give an affirmative answer when C_x satisfies certain conditions, which hold for complete intersections of dimension bigger than 1 and of multi-degree different from (2,2), (2,3), (2,2,2). This implies that a Fano complete intersection of index bigger than 3 and multi-degree different from (2), (3), (2,2), (2,2,2) cannot have isotrivial VMRT-structure.


Giovedì 19 settembre 2013
Ore 15:30, Aula 211, Università di Roma III
Seminario di Geometria
Gavril Farkas (Università di Berlino)
The Chow form of a K3 surface and pfaffians
I will show that the Chow form of every polarized K3 surface has a pfaffian structure by relating this question to the existence of Ulrich bundles on the K3 surfaces.


Venerdì 20 settembre 2013
Ore 9:00, Aula Picone
P(n) school on Recent Trends in Nonlinear PDEs
9:00 K Sandeep (TIFR, Bangalore), Semilinear elliptic problems in the hyperbolic space, II
11:15 Matthew J. Gursky (University of Notre Dame), Some fully nonlinear equations in geometry, II


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