Date:
Thu, 29/12/202214:30-15:30
This colloquium has been cancelled!
Title: Closing lemmas in contact dynamics and holomorphic curves
Abstract: Given a flow on a manifold, how to perturb it in order to create a periodic orbit passing through a given region? While the first results in this direction were obtained in the 1960-ies, various facets of this question remain largely open. I will review recent advances on this problem in the context of contact flows, which are closely related to Hamiltonian flows from classical mechanics. In particular, I'll discuss a proof of a conjecture of Irie stating that rotations of odd-dimensional ellipsoids admit a surprisingly large class of perturbations creating periodic orbits. The proof involves methods of modern symplectic topology including pseudo-holomorphic curves and contact homology. The talk is based on a joint work with Julian Chaidez, Ipsita Datta and Rohil Prasad, as well as a work in progress joint with Julian Chaidez.
Recording will be available at: https://huji.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=a6e6beab-eb0e-47c6-9d5d-aeb500acb5ad
Title: Closing lemmas in contact dynamics and holomorphic curves
Abstract: Given a flow on a manifold, how to perturb it in order to create a periodic orbit passing through a given region? While the first results in this direction were obtained in the 1960-ies, various facets of this question remain largely open. I will review recent advances on this problem in the context of contact flows, which are closely related to Hamiltonian flows from classical mechanics. In particular, I'll discuss a proof of a conjecture of Irie stating that rotations of odd-dimensional ellipsoids admit a surprisingly large class of perturbations creating periodic orbits. The proof involves methods of modern symplectic topology including pseudo-holomorphic curves and contact homology. The talk is based on a joint work with Julian Chaidez, Ipsita Datta and Rohil Prasad, as well as a work in progress joint with Julian Chaidez.
Recording will be available at: https://huji.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=a6e6beab-eb0e-47c6-9d5d-aeb500acb5ad