Vorträge in der Woche 22.01.2024 bis 28.01.2024


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Mittwoch, 24.01.2024: On the Maximality of T-Surfaces

Jules Chenal ( Lille )

O. Viro's patchworking theorem describes how to glue real algebraic hypersurfaces together in order to obtain new algebraic hypersurfaces. In its most simple version (primitive patchwork) the theorem provides us with an algorithm that construct real hypersurfaces from combinatorial data. More precisely, the combinatorial data (called a sign distribution) will produce both a CW-complex and a real hypersurface in a toric variety that are homeomorphic through an isotopy of the ambient toric variety. The Renaudineau-Shaw spectral sequence is a central tool in the study of their homology. It allowed, for instance, for upper bounds of the individual Betti numbers of such hypersurfaces (such inequalities are a refinement of the Smith-Thom inequality). We will present our generalisation of B. Haas' theorem to the case of T-Surfaces and give a combinatorial condition for the T-Surface to be maximal in the sense of the Smith-Thom inequality.

Uhrzeit: 10:15
Ort: C5H41 (S08)
Gruppe: Oberseminar Kombinatorische Algebraische Geometrie
Einladender: Matilde Manzaroli

Donnerstag, 25.01.2024: On ancient solutions to fully nonlinear curvature flows

Albachiara Cogo (UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN)

Geometric flows describe the evolution of Riemannian manifolds with infinitesimal deformation ruled by the intrinsic or extrinsic geometry of the object at each time. The nonlinear nature of the parabolic equations describing such flows leads to the development of singularities, the detailed study of which has been crucial in order to exploit geometric flows in the proofs of important results in geometry and topology since the pioneering works of Hamilton in 1982. Ancient solutions, namely solutions that exist for all times in the past, typically arise as dilations (i.e. blow-up limits) of singularities and tend to exhibit rigidity properties; therefore, classification results for these solutions are essential for the analysis of singularity formation. While Ricci flow is the canonical example of intrinsic curvature flow, Mean Curvature flow (MCF) is the correspondent model for extrinsic curvature flow. In particular, the norm of the normal velocity at every point a solution to MCF is equal to the mean curvature, which is the sum of the principal curvatures (i.e. eigenvalues of the second fundamental form) at the point. Other scalar geometric quantities can be obtained via symmetric (convex or concave) functions of the principal curvatures and can give rise to (parabolic) geometric flows, which preserve different classes of hypersurfaces. While locally the mean curvature reads as a quasilinear elliptic second-order operator, the corresponding PDE for all the other scalar quantities is fully nonlinear. A key example we have in mind is the so-called “G-flow” introduced by Brendle and Huisken in 2017, which preserves 2-convexity; they used it to prove a remarkable classification result for compact Riemannian manifolds. In this talk, based on joint work with S. Lynch and O. Vicanek Martinez, we will address the classification of ancient solutions to fully nonlinear curvature flows for hypersurfaces. Under natural conditions on the speed, we show that every convex, noncollapsing, uniformly two-convex ancient solution which is also noncompact is either a self-similarly shrinking cylinder or else is a rotationally symmetric translating soliton. For a large class of flows, this yields a complete classification of the blow-up limits that can arise at a singularity of a solution that is compact, embedded, and two-convex.

Uhrzeit: 14:00
Ort: N15 (C-Bau) and virtual via zoom, for zoom link please contact Martina Neu
Gruppe: Oberseminar Geometrische Analysis, Differentialgeometrie und Relativitätstheorie
Einladender: Carla Cederbaum, Gerhard Huisken, zusammen mit Jan Metzger (Potsdam)