SEMINARIUM

TEORIA DWOISTOŚCI

KATEDRY METOD MATEMATYCZNYCH FIZYKI



W dniu 9. listopada 2017 r. o godzinie 10:15

Michael Eastwood (School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide)

wygłosi wykład pt.

"How to recognise the geodesics of a metric"

Streszczenie
A Riemannian metric gives rise to geodesics. As unparameterised curves, at each point there is one geodesic in every direction. Does this arrangement of curves determine the metric and will any such arrangement of curves determine a metric? These are classical questions considered, for example, by Roger Liouville in 1889 who made considerable progress in answering these questions in two dimensions. This talk will be in two parts. Part 1 will discuss joint work with Robert Bryant and Maciej Dunajski: it solves the two-dimensional case. Part 2 will discuss joint work with Maciej Dunajski: it finds obstructions in the three-dimensional case.

Seminarium odbywa się w czwartki w godzinach 10:15–12:00 w sali 2.23 w głównym budynku Wydziału Fizyki UW przy ul. Pasteura 5 (II p.) w Warszawie.
Dodatkowe informacje są zamieszczane na stronie http://oldwww.fuw.edu.pl/KMMF/sem.czw.przedp.html.