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Tuesday Seminar on Topology
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| Date, time & place | Tuesday 17:00 - 18:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.) |
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| Organizer(s) | KAWAZUMI Nariya, KITAYAMA Takahiro, SAKASAI Takuya |
2024/06/20
17:00-18:30 Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Joint with RIKEN iTHEMS. Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Dominik Inauen (University of Leipzig)
Rigidity and Flexibility of Iosmetric Embeddings (ENGLISH)
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
Joint with RIKEN iTHEMS. Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Dominik Inauen (University of Leipzig)
Rigidity and Flexibility of Iosmetric Embeddings (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
The problem of embedding abstract Riemannian manifolds isometrically (i.e. preserving the lengths) into Euclidean space stems from the conceptually fundamental question of whether abstract Riemannian manifolds and submanifolds of Euclidean space are the same. As it turns out, such embeddings have a drastically different behaviour at low regularity (i.e. $C^1$) than at high regularity (i.e. $C^2$). For example, by the famous Nash--Kuiper theorem it is possible to find $C^1$ isometric embeddings of the standard $2$-sphere into arbitrarily small balls in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and yet, in the $C^2$ category there is (up to translation and rotation) just one isometric embedding, namely the standard inclusion. Analoguous to the Onsager conjecture in fluid dynamics, one might ask if there is a sharp regularity threshold in the Hölder scale which distinguishes these flexible and rigid behaviours. In my talk I will review some known results and argue why the Hölder exponent 1/2 can be seen as a critical exponent in the problem.
[ Reference URL ]The problem of embedding abstract Riemannian manifolds isometrically (i.e. preserving the lengths) into Euclidean space stems from the conceptually fundamental question of whether abstract Riemannian manifolds and submanifolds of Euclidean space are the same. As it turns out, such embeddings have a drastically different behaviour at low regularity (i.e. $C^1$) than at high regularity (i.e. $C^2$). For example, by the famous Nash--Kuiper theorem it is possible to find $C^1$ isometric embeddings of the standard $2$-sphere into arbitrarily small balls in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and yet, in the $C^2$ category there is (up to translation and rotation) just one isometric embedding, namely the standard inclusion. Analoguous to the Onsager conjecture in fluid dynamics, one might ask if there is a sharp regularity threshold in the Hölder scale which distinguishes these flexible and rigid behaviours. In my talk I will review some known results and argue why the Hölder exponent 1/2 can be seen as a critical exponent in the problem.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
