Pure Maths Colloquium - Spectra, automata and discrete analogues of the KdV equation - Andrzej Zuk (U Paris 7) Seminar
- Time:
- 15:00 - 16:00
- Date:
- 28 April 2017
- Venue:
- 58 / 10B
For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Dr Jan Spakula on 23137 or email jan.spakula@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Abstract: Box-Ball systems are discrete analogues of the KdV equation. We prove that their evolution can be described by automata. With these automata we associate self-adjoint operators. We relate spectral properties of these operators with L2 Betti numbers of closed manifolds.
Speaker information
Prof Andrzej Zuk , Institut de Mathématiques, Université Paris 7. Professor in Analysis, geometry and probability on groups