School of Mathematics

Bass Note Spectra of Binary Forms

Giorgos Kotsovolis

In the 1940s Mahler initiated the program of determining the bass note spectrum Spec(P):={infx⎯⎯∈Λ∖0⎯⎯∣∣P(x⎯⎯)∣∣,Λ⊂ℝk a unimodular lattice} for some homogeneous form P. Understanding this spectrum is central in the geometry of numbers and offers a...

MM-curves

Mario Kummer

For an embedded stable curve over the real numbers we introduce a hyperplane arrangement in the tangent space of the Hilbert scheme. The connected components of its complement are labeled by embeddings of the graph of the stable curve to a compact...

Teichmuller dynamics give us a nonhomogeneous example of an action of SL_2(R) on a space H_g preserving a finite measure. This space is related to the moduli space of genus g curves. The SL_2(R) action on H_g has a complicated behavior: McMullen...