Special Year 2021-22: h-Principle and Flexibility in Geometry and PDEs

Seminar in Analysis and Geometry

November 09, 2021 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

I will present an elementary introduction to the regularity/uniqueness issues for the Navier-Stokes equations. Thanks to the convex integration technique, the h-principle is starting to take shape for the uniqueness problem. It might be possible...

Workshop on the h-principle and beyond

November 05, 2021 | 2:15pm - 3:15pm

Abstract: I use the same title for different talks, changing the selection of topics and the level of detailedness for each topic:) This is a survey talk based on joint projects with D. Chen, S. Ivanov, late Ya. Kurylev, M. Lassas, J. Lu, and, if...

Workshop on the h-principle and beyond

November 05, 2021 | 11:45am - 12:45pm

Abstract: Cieliebak and Eliashberg showed that there is a special class of flexible symplectic structures that satisfy an h-principle and hence  have `trivial' symplectic topology. In this talk, I will explain that it is fruitful to think of...

Workshop on the h-principle and beyond

November 05, 2021 | 10:15am - 11:15am

Abstract : We describe a construction of a locally conformal symplectic structure homotopic to any given non-degenerate 2-form and whose Lee form can be any non-exact 1-form. Moreover, each connected component of the boundary, if any, may be chosen...

Workshop on the h-principle and beyond

November 04, 2021 | 2:15pm - 3:15pm

Abstract: Traditionally, objects of study in symplectic geometry are smooth - such as symplectic and Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, Lagrangian (or more generally, isotropic and co-isotropic) submanifolds etc. However, in the course of development of...

Workshop on the h-principle and beyond

November 04, 2021 | 11:45am - 12:45pm

Abstract: In the first half of the talk I will review Gromov's work on convex integration for open differential relations. I will put particular emphasis on comparing various flavours of ampleness and, in particular, I will note that the different...

Workshop on the h-principle and beyond

November 04, 2021 | 10:15am - 11:15am

Abstract: In this talk we consider the classical Monge-Amp´ere equation in two dimensions in a low-regularity regime:

(0.1) det D 2u = f on D ⊂ R2 .

We will assume that f is a given strictly positive, smooth function, but we want to assume as...