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Fluctuations look like white noise

Laure Saint-Raymond
At leading order, the fluctuations around the typical dynamics are described by the second cumulant. They actually satisfy a stochastic PDE with time-space white noise. Can we say more using higher order cumulants?
Although the distribution of hard spheres remains essentially chaotic in this regime, collisions give birth to small correlations. The structure of these dynamical correlations is amazing, going through all scales. How combinatorial techniques can...

A Riemannian manifold is called Besse, if all of its geodesics are periodic. The goal of this talk is to study the energy functional on the free loop space of a Besse manifold. In particular, we show that this is a perfect Morse-Bott function for...