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 |
Seminar information archive
2024/01/16
17:00-18:00 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Jin Miyazawa (The University of Tokyo)
A gauge theoretic invariant of embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds and exotic P2-knots (JAPANESE)
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Jin Miyazawa (The University of Tokyo)
A gauge theoretic invariant of embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds and exotic P2-knots (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
When two embeddings of surfaces on a 4-dimensional manifold are given, if they are topologically isotopic but not smoothly isotopic, we call them a pair of exotic surfaces. While there is a great deal of study of exotic surfaces in 4-manifolds, studies of closed exotic surfaces in S4 are limited. In particular, the existence of orientable exotic surfaces in S4 remains unknown to date. There are some examples of non-orientable exotic surfaces in S4, including the initial example given by Finashin-Kreck-Viro in 1988, but all such cases have genus greater than or equal to 5. The difficulty in detecting exotic surfaces in S4 is to prove that two embeddings of surfaces are not smoothly isotopic. All examples of exotic non-orientable surfaces in S4 have been detected by proving the 4-manifolds obtained by the double branched covers are exotic. If we attempt to apply this technique to low-genus non-orientable surfaces in S4, we have to discover exotic small 4-manifolds, which is known to be difficult. In this seminar, we construct an invariant for embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds using Real Seiberg-Witten theory. As an application, we give an infinite family of exotic embeddings into S4 for the real projective plane.
[ Reference URL ]When two embeddings of surfaces on a 4-dimensional manifold are given, if they are topologically isotopic but not smoothly isotopic, we call them a pair of exotic surfaces. While there is a great deal of study of exotic surfaces in 4-manifolds, studies of closed exotic surfaces in S4 are limited. In particular, the existence of orientable exotic surfaces in S4 remains unknown to date. There are some examples of non-orientable exotic surfaces in S4, including the initial example given by Finashin-Kreck-Viro in 1988, but all such cases have genus greater than or equal to 5. The difficulty in detecting exotic surfaces in S4 is to prove that two embeddings of surfaces are not smoothly isotopic. All examples of exotic non-orientable surfaces in S4 have been detected by proving the 4-manifolds obtained by the double branched covers are exotic. If we attempt to apply this technique to low-genus non-orientable surfaces in S4, we have to discover exotic small 4-manifolds, which is known to be difficult. In this seminar, we construct an invariant for embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds using Real Seiberg-Witten theory. As an application, we give an infinite family of exotic embeddings into S4 for the real projective plane.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2024/01/09
17:00-18:00 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Akihiro Takano (The University of Tokyo)
Stabilizer subgroups of Thompson's group F in Thompson knot theory (JAPANESE)
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Akihiro Takano (The University of Tokyo)
Stabilizer subgroups of Thompson's group F in Thompson knot theory (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Thompson knot theory, introduced by Vaughan Jones, is a study of knot theory using Thompson's group F.
More specifically, he defined a method of constructing a knot from an element of F, and proved that any knot can be realized in his way. This fact is called Alexander’s theorem, which is an analogy of the braid group. In this talk, we consider Thompson knot theory in terms of a relation between subgroups of F and knots obtained from their elements. In particular, we focus on stabilizer subgroups of F with respect to the natural action on the unit interval. This talk is based on joint work with Yuya Kodama (Tokyo Metropolitan University).
[ Reference URL ]Thompson knot theory, introduced by Vaughan Jones, is a study of knot theory using Thompson's group F.
More specifically, he defined a method of constructing a knot from an element of F, and proved that any knot can be realized in his way. This fact is called Alexander’s theorem, which is an analogy of the braid group. In this talk, we consider Thompson knot theory in terms of a relation between subgroups of F and knots obtained from their elements. In particular, we focus on stabilizer subgroups of F with respect to the natural action on the unit interval. This talk is based on joint work with Yuya Kodama (Tokyo Metropolitan University).
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/12/19
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (The University of Tokyo)
Topological quantum computing, tensor networks and operator algebras (JAPANESE)
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Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (The University of Tokyo)
Topological quantum computing, tensor networks and operator algebras (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Modular tensor categories have caught much attention in connection to topological quantum computing based on anyons recently. Condensed matter physicists recently try to understand structures of modular tensor categories appearing in two-dimensional topological order using tensor networks. We present understanding of their tools in terms of operator algebras. For example, 4-tensors they use are exactly bi-unitary connections in the Jones theory of subfactors and their sequence of finite dimensional Hilbert spaces on which their gapped Hamiltonians act is given by the so-called higher relative commutants of a subfactor. No knowledge on operator algebras are assumed.
[ Reference URL ]Modular tensor categories have caught much attention in connection to topological quantum computing based on anyons recently. Condensed matter physicists recently try to understand structures of modular tensor categories appearing in two-dimensional topological order using tensor networks. We present understanding of their tools in terms of operator algebras. For example, 4-tensors they use are exactly bi-unitary connections in the Jones theory of subfactors and their sequence of finite dimensional Hilbert spaces on which their gapped Hamiltonians act is given by the so-called higher relative commutants of a subfactor. No knowledge on operator algebras are assumed.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/12/14
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Mikiya Masuda (Osaka City University)
Torus orbit closures in the flag variety (JAPANESE)
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Mikiya Masuda (Osaka City University)
Torus orbit closures in the flag variety (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
The study of torus orbit closures in the flag variety was initiated by Gelfand-Serganova and Klyachko in 1980’s but has not been studied much since then. Recently, I have studied its geometry and topology jointly with Eunjeong Lee, Seonjeong Park, Jongbaek Song in connection with combinatorics of polytopes, Coxeter matroids, and polygonal triangulations. In this talk I will report on the development of this subject.
[ Reference URL ]The study of torus orbit closures in the flag variety was initiated by Gelfand-Serganova and Klyachko in 1980’s but has not been studied much since then. Recently, I have studied its geometry and topology jointly with Eunjeong Lee, Seonjeong Park, Jongbaek Song in connection with combinatorics of polytopes, Coxeter matroids, and polygonal triangulations. In this talk I will report on the development of this subject.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/12/12
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Stavros Garoufalidis (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Multivariable knot polynomials from braided Hopf algebras with automorphisms (ENGLISH)
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Stavros Garoufalidis (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Multivariable knot polynomials from braided Hopf algebras with automorphisms (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
We will discuss a unified approach to define multivariable polynomial invariants of knots that include the colored Jones polynomials, the ADO polynomials and the invariants defined using the theory of quantum groups. Our construction uses braided Hopf algebras with automorphisms. We will give examples of 2-variable invariants, and discuss their structural properties. Joint work with Rinat Kashaev.
[ Reference URL ]We will discuss a unified approach to define multivariable polynomial invariants of knots that include the colored Jones polynomials, the ADO polynomials and the invariants defined using the theory of quantum groups. Our construction uses braided Hopf algebras with automorphisms. We will give examples of 2-variable invariants, and discuss their structural properties. Joint work with Rinat Kashaev.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/12/05
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Teruaki Kitano (Soka University)
On the Euler class for flat S1-bundles, C∞ vs Cω (JAPANESE)
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Teruaki Kitano (Soka University)
On the Euler class for flat S1-bundles, C∞ vs Cω (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
We describe low dimensional homology groups of the real analytic, orientation preserving diffeomorphism group of S1 in terms of BΓ1 by applying a theorem of Thurston. It is an open problem whether some power of the rational Euler class vanishes for real analytic flat S1 bundles. In this talk we discuss that if it does, then the homology group should contain many torsion classes that vanish in the smooth case. Along this line we can give a new proof for the non-triviality of any power of the rational Euler class in the smooth case. If time permits, we will mention some attempts to study a Mather-Thurston map in the analytic case. This talk is based on a joint work with Shigeyuki Morita and Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu.
[ Reference URL ]We describe low dimensional homology groups of the real analytic, orientation preserving diffeomorphism group of S1 in terms of BΓ1 by applying a theorem of Thurston. It is an open problem whether some power of the rational Euler class vanishes for real analytic flat S1 bundles. In this talk we discuss that if it does, then the homology group should contain many torsion classes that vanish in the smooth case. Along this line we can give a new proof for the non-triviality of any power of the rational Euler class in the smooth case. If time permits, we will mention some attempts to study a Mather-Thurston map in the analytic case. This talk is based on a joint work with Shigeyuki Morita and Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/11/28
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Gwénaël Massuyeau (Université de Bourgogne)
An analogue of the Johnson-Morita theory for the handlebody group (ENGLISH)
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Gwénaël Massuyeau (Université de Bourgogne)
An analogue of the Johnson-Morita theory for the handlebody group (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
The Johnson-Morita theory provides an approach for the mapping class group of a surface by considering its actions on the successive nilpotent quotients of the fundamental group of the surface. In this talk, after an outline of the original theory, we will present an analogue of the Johnson-Morita theory for the handlebody group, i.e. the mapping class group of a handlebody. This is joint work with Kazuo Habiro; as we shall explain if time allows, our motivation is to recover the "tree reduction" of a certain functor on the category of bottom tangles in handlebodies that we introduced (a few years ago) using the Kontsevich integral.
[ Reference URL ]The Johnson-Morita theory provides an approach for the mapping class group of a surface by considering its actions on the successive nilpotent quotients of the fundamental group of the surface. In this talk, after an outline of the original theory, we will present an analogue of the Johnson-Morita theory for the handlebody group, i.e. the mapping class group of a handlebody. This is joint work with Kazuo Habiro; as we shall explain if time allows, our motivation is to recover the "tree reduction" of a certain functor on the category of bottom tangles in handlebodies that we introduced (a few years ago) using the Kontsevich integral.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/11/21
17:30-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Yuya Koda (Keio University)
Shadows, divides and hyperbolic volumes (JAPANESE)
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Yuya Koda (Keio University)
Shadows, divides and hyperbolic volumes (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
In 2008, Costantino and D.Thurston revealed that the combinatorial structure of the Stein factorizations of stable maps from 3-manifolds into the real plane can be used to describe the hyperbolic structures of the complement of the set of definite fold points, which is a link. The key was that the Stein factorizations can naturally be embedded into 4-manifolds, and nice ideal polyhedral decompositions become visible on their boundaries. In this talk, we consider divides, which are the images of a proper and generic immersions of compact 1-manifolds into the 2-disk. Due to A'Campo's theory, each divide is associated with a link in the 3-sphere. By embedding a polyhedron induced from a given divide into the 4-ball as was done to Stein factorization, we can read off the ideal polyhedral decompositions on the boundary. We then show that the complement of the link of the divide can be obtained by Dehn filling a hyperbolic 3-manifold that admits a decomposition into several ideal regular hyperbolic polyhedra, where the number of each polyhedron is determined by types of the double points of the divide. This immediately gives an upper bound of the hyperbolic volume of the links of divides, which is shown to be asymptotically sharp. As in the case of Stein factorizations, an idea from the theory of Turaev's shadows plays an important role here. This talk is based on joint work with Ryoga Furutani (Hiroshima University).
[ Reference URL ]In 2008, Costantino and D.Thurston revealed that the combinatorial structure of the Stein factorizations of stable maps from 3-manifolds into the real plane can be used to describe the hyperbolic structures of the complement of the set of definite fold points, which is a link. The key was that the Stein factorizations can naturally be embedded into 4-manifolds, and nice ideal polyhedral decompositions become visible on their boundaries. In this talk, we consider divides, which are the images of a proper and generic immersions of compact 1-manifolds into the 2-disk. Due to A'Campo's theory, each divide is associated with a link in the 3-sphere. By embedding a polyhedron induced from a given divide into the 4-ball as was done to Stein factorization, we can read off the ideal polyhedral decompositions on the boundary. We then show that the complement of the link of the divide can be obtained by Dehn filling a hyperbolic 3-manifold that admits a decomposition into several ideal regular hyperbolic polyhedra, where the number of each polyhedron is determined by types of the double points of the divide. This immediately gives an upper bound of the hyperbolic volume of the links of divides, which is shown to be asymptotically sharp. As in the case of Stein factorizations, an idea from the theory of Turaev's shadows plays an important role here. This talk is based on joint work with Ryoga Furutani (Hiroshima University).
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/11/14
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Tomoo Yokoyama (Saitama University)
Dependency of the positive and negative long-time behaviors of flows on surfaces (JAPANESE)
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Tomoo Yokoyama (Saitama University)
Dependency of the positive and negative long-time behaviors of flows on surfaces (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
We discuss the dependence of a flow's positive and negative limit behaviors on a surface. In particular, I introduce the list of possible pairs of positive and negative limit behaviors that can and cannot occur. The idea of the dependence mechanism is illustrated using the dependence of the limit behavior of a toy model, a circle homeomorphism. We overview with as few prior knowledge assumptions as possible.
[ Reference URL ]We discuss the dependence of a flow's positive and negative limit behaviors on a surface. In particular, I introduce the list of possible pairs of positive and negative limit behaviors that can and cannot occur. The idea of the dependence mechanism is illustrated using the dependence of the limit behavior of a toy model, a circle homeomorphism. We overview with as few prior knowledge assumptions as possible.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/11/07
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Florent Schaffhauser (Heidelberg University)
Hodge numbers of moduli spaces of principal bundles on curves (ENGLISH)
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Florent Schaffhauser (Heidelberg University)
Hodge numbers of moduli spaces of principal bundles on curves (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
The Poincaré series of moduli stacks of semistable G-bundles on curves has been computed by Laumon and Rapoport. In this joint work with Melissa Liu, we show that the Hodge-Poincaré series of these moduli stacks can be computed in a similar way. As an application, we obtain a new proof of a joint result of the speaker with Erwan Brugallé, on the maximality on moduli spaces of vector bundles over real algebraic curves.
[ Reference URL ]The Poincaré series of moduli stacks of semistable G-bundles on curves has been computed by Laumon and Rapoport. In this joint work with Melissa Liu, we show that the Hodge-Poincaré series of these moduli stacks can be computed in a similar way. As an application, we obtain a new proof of a joint result of the speaker with Erwan Brugallé, on the maximality on moduli spaces of vector bundles over real algebraic curves.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/10/31
17:30-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Naoki Chigira (Kumamoto University)
On Harada Conjecture II (JAPANESE)
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Naoki Chigira (Kumamoto University)
On Harada Conjecture II (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
The Character table of finite group has a lot of information about the group. In this talk, we discuss about a conjecture of Koichiro Harada (so called Harada conjecture II) which is related to the product of all irreducible characters and the product of all conjugacy class sizes.
[ Reference URL ]The Character table of finite group has a lot of information about the group. In this talk, we discuss about a conjecture of Koichiro Harada (so called Harada conjecture II) which is related to the product of all irreducible characters and the product of all conjugacy class sizes.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/10/24
17:00-18:00 Online
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Shin Hayashi (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Index theory for quarter-plane Toeplitz operators via extended symbols (JAPANESE)
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Shin Hayashi (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Index theory for quarter-plane Toeplitz operators via extended symbols (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
We consider index theory for some Toeplitz operators on a discrete quarter-plane. Index theory for such operators has been investigated by Simonenko, Douglas-Howe, Park and index formulas are obtained by Coburn-Douglas-Singer, Duducava. In this talk, we revisit Duducava’s idea and discuss an index formula for quarter-plane Toeplitz operators of two-variable rational matrix function symbols from a geometric viewpoint. By using Gohberg-Krein theory for matrix factorizations and analytic continuation, we see that the symbols of Fredholm quarter-plane Toeplitz operators defined originally on a two-dimensional torus can canonically be extended to some three-sphere, and show that their Fredholm indices coincides with the three-dimensional winding number of extended symbols. If time permits, we briefly mention a contact with a topic in condensed matter physics, called (higher-order) topological insulators.
[ Reference URL ]We consider index theory for some Toeplitz operators on a discrete quarter-plane. Index theory for such operators has been investigated by Simonenko, Douglas-Howe, Park and index formulas are obtained by Coburn-Douglas-Singer, Duducava. In this talk, we revisit Duducava’s idea and discuss an index formula for quarter-plane Toeplitz operators of two-variable rational matrix function symbols from a geometric viewpoint. By using Gohberg-Krein theory for matrix factorizations and analytic continuation, we see that the symbols of Fredholm quarter-plane Toeplitz operators defined originally on a two-dimensional torus can canonically be extended to some three-sphere, and show that their Fredholm indices coincides with the three-dimensional winding number of extended symbols. If time permits, we briefly mention a contact with a topic in condensed matter physics, called (higher-order) topological insulators.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/10/17
17:00-18:00 Online
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Shunsuke Kano (MathCCS, Tohoku University)
Train track combinatorics and cluster algebras (JAPANESE)
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Shunsuke Kano (MathCCS, Tohoku University)
Train track combinatorics and cluster algebras (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
The concepts of train track was introduced by W. P. Thurston to study the measured foliations/laminations and the pseudo-Anosov mapping classes on a surface. In this talk, we translate some concepts of train tracks into the language of cluster algebras using the tropicalization of Goncharov--Shen's potential function. Using this, we translate a combinatorial property of a train track associated with a pseudo-Anosov mapping class into the combinatorial property in cluster algebras, called the sign stability which was introduced by Tsukasa Ishibashi and the speaker.
[ Reference URL ]The concepts of train track was introduced by W. P. Thurston to study the measured foliations/laminations and the pseudo-Anosov mapping classes on a surface. In this talk, we translate some concepts of train tracks into the language of cluster algebras using the tropicalization of Goncharov--Shen's potential function. Using this, we translate a combinatorial property of a train track associated with a pseudo-Anosov mapping class into the combinatorial property in cluster algebras, called the sign stability which was introduced by Tsukasa Ishibashi and the speaker.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/10/10
17:30-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Masato Mimura (Tohoku University)
Invariant quasimorphisms and coarse geometry of scl (JAPANESE)
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Masato Mimura (Tohoku University)
Invariant quasimorphisms and coarse geometry of scl (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
The topic of this talk is completely independent from that of the intensive lecture (the Green--Tao theorem) from 9th to 13th, Oct. This talk is based on the series of the joint work with Morimichi Kawasaki, Mitsuaki Kimura, Takahiro Matsushita and Shuhei Maruyama. Quasimorphisms on a group are interesting objects, but for many naturally constructed groups the space of quasimorphisms tends to be either 'trivial' or infinite dimensional. We study the setting of a pair of a group and its normal subgroup, not of a single group, and invariant quasimorphisms. Then, we can obtain a non-zero finite dimensional vector space from this setting. The celebrated Bavard duality theorem is extended to this framework, and the resulting theorem yields some outcome on the coarse geometry of scl (stable commutator length). I will present an overview of the developments of this theory.
[ Reference URL ]The topic of this talk is completely independent from that of the intensive lecture (the Green--Tao theorem) from 9th to 13th, Oct. This talk is based on the series of the joint work with Morimichi Kawasaki, Mitsuaki Kimura, Takahiro Matsushita and Shuhei Maruyama. Quasimorphisms on a group are interesting objects, but for many naturally constructed groups the space of quasimorphisms tends to be either 'trivial' or infinite dimensional. We study the setting of a pair of a group and its normal subgroup, not of a single group, and invariant quasimorphisms. Then, we can obtain a non-zero finite dimensional vector space from this setting. The celebrated Bavard duality theorem is extended to this framework, and the resulting theorem yields some outcome on the coarse geometry of scl (stable commutator length). I will present an overview of the developments of this theory.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/07/04
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Takefumi Nosaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Reciprocity of the Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds (JAPANESE)
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Takefumi Nosaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Reciprocity of the Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Given an oriented closed 3-manifold $M$ and a representation $\pi_1(M) \longrightarrow SL_2(\mathbb{C})$, we can define the Chern-Simons invariant and adjoint Reidemeister torsion. Recently, several physicists and topologists pose and study reciprocity conjectures of the torsions. Analogously, I pose reciprocity conjectures of the Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds, and argue some supporting evidence on the conjectures. Especially, I show that the conjectures hold if Galois descent of a certain $K_3$-group is satisfied. In this talk, I will explain the backgrounds and the results in detail.
[ Reference URL ]Given an oriented closed 3-manifold $M$ and a representation $\pi_1(M) \longrightarrow SL_2(\mathbb{C})$, we can define the Chern-Simons invariant and adjoint Reidemeister torsion. Recently, several physicists and topologists pose and study reciprocity conjectures of the torsions. Analogously, I pose reciprocity conjectures of the Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds, and argue some supporting evidence on the conjectures. Especially, I show that the conjectures hold if Galois descent of a certain $K_3$-group is satisfied. In this talk, I will explain the backgrounds and the results in detail.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/06/20
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Arnaud Maret (Sorbonne Université)
Moduli spaces of triangle chains (ENGLISH)
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Arnaud Maret (Sorbonne Université)
Moduli spaces of triangle chains (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
In this talk, I will describe a moduli space of triangle chains in the hyperbolic plane with prescribed angles. We will relate this moduli space to a specific character variety of representations of surface groups into PSL(2,R). This identification provides action-angle coordinates for the Goldman symplectic form on the character variety. If time permits, I will explain why the mapping class group action on that particular character variety is ergodic.
[ Reference URL ]In this talk, I will describe a moduli space of triangle chains in the hyperbolic plane with prescribed angles. We will relate this moduli space to a specific character variety of representations of surface groups into PSL(2,R). This identification provides action-angle coordinates for the Goldman symplectic form on the character variety. If time permits, I will explain why the mapping class group action on that particular character variety is ergodic.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/06/13
17:00-18:00 Online
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Shunsuke Usuki (Kyoto University)
On a lower bound of the number of integers in Littlewood's conjecture (JAPANESE)
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Shunsuke Usuki (Kyoto University)
On a lower bound of the number of integers in Littlewood's conjecture (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Littlewood's conjecture is a famous and long-standing open problem on simultaneous Diophantine approximation. It is closely related to the action of diagonal matrices on ${\rm SL}(3,\mathbb{R})/{\rm SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$, and M. Einsiedler, A. Katok and E. Lindenstrauss showed in 2000's that the exceptional set for Littlewood's conjecture has Hausdorff dimension zero by using some rigidity for invariant measures under the diagonal action. In this talk, I explain that we can obtain some quantitative result on the result of Einsiedler, Katok and Lindenstrauss by studying the empirical measures with respect to the diagonal action.
[ Reference URL ]Littlewood's conjecture is a famous and long-standing open problem on simultaneous Diophantine approximation. It is closely related to the action of diagonal matrices on ${\rm SL}(3,\mathbb{R})/{\rm SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$, and M. Einsiedler, A. Katok and E. Lindenstrauss showed in 2000's that the exceptional set for Littlewood's conjecture has Hausdorff dimension zero by using some rigidity for invariant measures under the diagonal action. In this talk, I explain that we can obtain some quantitative result on the result of Einsiedler, Katok and Lindenstrauss by studying the empirical measures with respect to the diagonal action.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/06/06
17:30-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Joint with Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar. See our seminar webpage.
Atsumu Sasaki (Tokai University)
Visible actions on reductive spherical homogeneous spaces and their invariant measures (JAPANESE)
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
Joint with Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar. See our seminar webpage.
Atsumu Sasaki (Tokai University)
Visible actions on reductive spherical homogeneous spaces and their invariant measures (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Toshiyuki Kobayashi has established propagation theorem of multiplicity-freeness property. This theorem enables us to give an unified explanation of multiplicity-freeness of multiplicity-free representations which have been found so far, and also to find new examples of multiplicity-free representations systematically. Kobayashi further has introduced the notion of visible actions on complex manifolds as a basic condition for propagation theorem of multiplicity-freeness property. This notion plays an important role to this theorem and also brings us to find various decomposition theorems of Lie groups and homogeneous spaces.
In this talk, we explain visible actions on reductive spherical homogeneous spaces. In particular, we see that for a visible action on reductive spherical homogeneous space our construction of a submanifold which meets every orbit (called a slice) is given by an explicit description of a Cartan decomposition for this space. As a corollary of this study, we characterize the invariant measure on a reductive spherical homogeneous space by giving an integral formula for a Cartan decomposition explicitly.
[ Reference URL ]Toshiyuki Kobayashi has established propagation theorem of multiplicity-freeness property. This theorem enables us to give an unified explanation of multiplicity-freeness of multiplicity-free representations which have been found so far, and also to find new examples of multiplicity-free representations systematically. Kobayashi further has introduced the notion of visible actions on complex manifolds as a basic condition for propagation theorem of multiplicity-freeness property. This notion plays an important role to this theorem and also brings us to find various decomposition theorems of Lie groups and homogeneous spaces.
In this talk, we explain visible actions on reductive spherical homogeneous spaces. In particular, we see that for a visible action on reductive spherical homogeneous space our construction of a submanifold which meets every orbit (called a slice) is given by an explicit description of a Cartan decomposition for this space. As a corollary of this study, we characterize the invariant measure on a reductive spherical homogeneous space by giving an integral formula for a Cartan decomposition explicitly.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/05/30
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Yuya Kodama (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
p-colorable subgroup of Thompson's group F (JAPANESE)
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Yuya Kodama (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
p-colorable subgroup of Thompson's group F (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Thompson's group F is a subgroup of Homeo([0, 1]). In 2017, Jones found a way to construct knots and links from elements in F. Moreover, any knot (or link) can be obtained in this way. So the next question is, which elements in F give the same knot (or link)? In this talk, I define a subgroup of F and show that every element (except the identity) gives a p-colorable knot (or link). When p=3, this gives a negative answer to a question by Aiello. This is a joint work with Akihiro Takano.
[ Reference URL ]Thompson's group F is a subgroup of Homeo([0, 1]). In 2017, Jones found a way to construct knots and links from elements in F. Moreover, any knot (or link) can be obtained in this way. So the next question is, which elements in F give the same knot (or link)? In this talk, I define a subgroup of F and show that every element (except the identity) gives a p-colorable knot (or link). When p=3, this gives a negative answer to a question by Aiello. This is a joint work with Akihiro Takano.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/05/16
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Mayuko Yamashita (Kyoto University)
Anderson self-duality of topological modular forms and heretoric string theory (JAPANESE)
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Mayuko Yamashita (Kyoto University)
Anderson self-duality of topological modular forms and heretoric string theory (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Topological Modular Forms (TMF) is an E-infinity ring spectrum which is conjectured by Stolz-Teichner to classify two-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories in physics. In the previous work with Y. Tachikawa, we proved the vanishing of anomalies in heterotic string theory mathematically by using TMF. In this talk, I explain our recent update on the previous work. Because of the vanishing result, we can consider a secondary transformation of spectra, which is shown to coincide with the Anderson self-duality morphism of TMF. This allows us to detect subtle torsion phenomena in TMF by differential-geometric ways.
[ Reference URL ]Topological Modular Forms (TMF) is an E-infinity ring spectrum which is conjectured by Stolz-Teichner to classify two-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories in physics. In the previous work with Y. Tachikawa, we proved the vanishing of anomalies in heterotic string theory mathematically by using TMF. In this talk, I explain our recent update on the previous work. Because of the vanishing result, we can consider a secondary transformation of spectra, which is shown to coincide with the Anderson self-duality morphism of TMF. This allows us to detect subtle torsion phenomena in TMF by differential-geometric ways.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/05/09
17:00-18:00 Online
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Michihisa Wakui (Kansai University)
Knots and frieze patterns (JAPANESE)
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Michihisa Wakui (Kansai University)
Knots and frieze patterns (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
(joint work with Prof. Takeyoshi Kogiso (Josai University)) In the early 1970s, Conway and Coxeter introduced frieze patterns of positive integers arranged under the unimodular rule ad-bc=1, and showed that they are classified by triangulations of convex polygons. Currently, the frieze patterns by Conway and Coxeter are spotlighted in connection with cluster algebras which are introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky in the early 2000s.
Working with Takeyoshi Kogiso in Josai University the speaker study on relationship between rational links and Conway-Coxeter friezes through ancestor triangles of rational numbers introduced by Shuji Yamada in Kyoto Sangyo University, and show that rational links are characterized by Conway-Coxeter friezes of zigzag type. At nearly the same time Morier-Genoud and Ovsienko also introduce the concept of q-deformation of rational numbers based on continued fraction expansions, and derive closely related results to our research. In this seminar we will talk about an outline of these results.
[ Reference URL ](joint work with Prof. Takeyoshi Kogiso (Josai University)) In the early 1970s, Conway and Coxeter introduced frieze patterns of positive integers arranged under the unimodular rule ad-bc=1, and showed that they are classified by triangulations of convex polygons. Currently, the frieze patterns by Conway and Coxeter are spotlighted in connection with cluster algebras which are introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky in the early 2000s.
Working with Takeyoshi Kogiso in Josai University the speaker study on relationship between rational links and Conway-Coxeter friezes through ancestor triangles of rational numbers introduced by Shuji Yamada in Kyoto Sangyo University, and show that rational links are characterized by Conway-Coxeter friezes of zigzag type. At nearly the same time Morier-Genoud and Ovsienko also introduce the concept of q-deformation of rational numbers based on continued fraction expansions, and derive closely related results to our research. In this seminar we will talk about an outline of these results.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/04/25
17:00-18:00 Online
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Hiraku Nozawa (Ritsumeikan University)
Harmonic measures and rigidity of surface group actions on the circle (JAPANESE)
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Hiraku Nozawa (Ritsumeikan University)
Harmonic measures and rigidity of surface group actions on the circle (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
We study rigidity properties of surface group actions on the circle via harmonic measures on the suspension bundles, which are measures invariant under the heat diffusion along leaves. We will explain a curvature estimate and a Gauss-Bonnet formula for an S^1-connection obtained by taking the average of the flat connection on the suspension bundle with respect to a harmonic measure. As consequences, we give a precise description of the harmonic measure on suspension foliations with maximal Euler number and an alternative proof of semiconjugacy rigidity theorems of Matsumoto and Burger-Iozzi-Wienhard for actions with maximal Euler number. This is joint work with Masanori Adachi and Yoshifumi Matsuda.
[ Reference URL ]We study rigidity properties of surface group actions on the circle via harmonic measures on the suspension bundles, which are measures invariant under the heat diffusion along leaves. We will explain a curvature estimate and a Gauss-Bonnet formula for an S^1-connection obtained by taking the average of the flat connection on the suspension bundle with respect to a harmonic measure. As consequences, we give a precise description of the harmonic measure on suspension foliations with maximal Euler number and an alternative proof of semiconjugacy rigidity theorems of Matsumoto and Burger-Iozzi-Wienhard for actions with maximal Euler number. This is joint work with Masanori Adachi and Yoshifumi Matsuda.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/04/18
17:00-18:00 Online
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Shuhei Maruyama (Chuo University)
A crossed homomorphism on a big mapping class group (JAPANESE)
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Shuhei Maruyama (Chuo University)
A crossed homomorphism on a big mapping class group (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Big mapping class groups are mapping class groups of surfaces of infinite type. Calegari and Chen determined the second (co)homology group of the mapping class group of the sphere minus a Cantor set. They also raised related questions: one of the questions asks an explicit form of certain crossed homomorphisms on the big mapping class group. In this talk, we provide a construction of crossed homomorphisms via group actions on the circle, which answers the question of Calegari and Chen.
[ Reference URL ]Big mapping class groups are mapping class groups of surfaces of infinite type. Calegari and Chen determined the second (co)homology group of the mapping class group of the sphere minus a Cantor set. They also raised related questions: one of the questions asks an explicit form of certain crossed homomorphisms on the big mapping class group. In this talk, we provide a construction of crossed homomorphisms via group actions on the circle, which answers the question of Calegari and Chen.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/04/11
17:00-18:30 Room #ハイブリッド開催/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
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Kazuo Habiro (The Univesity of Tokyo)
On the stable cohomology of the (IA-)automorphism groups of free groups (JAPANESE)
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Kazuo Habiro (The Univesity of Tokyo)
On the stable cohomology of the (IA-)automorphism groups of free groups (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
By combining Borel's stability and vanishing theorem for the stable cohomology of GL(n,Z) with coefficients in algebraic GL(n,Z)-representations and the Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence, we compute the twisted first cohomology of the automorphism group Aut(F_n) of the free group F_n of rank n. This method is used also in the study of the stable rational cohomology of the IA-automorphism group IA_n of F_n. We propose a conjectural algebraic structure of the stable rational cohomology of IA_n, and consider some relations to known results and conjectures. We also consider a conjectural structure of the stable rational cohomology of the Torelli groups of surfaces. This is a joint work with Mai Katada.
[ Reference URL ]By combining Borel's stability and vanishing theorem for the stable cohomology of GL(n,Z) with coefficients in algebraic GL(n,Z)-representations and the Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence, we compute the twisted first cohomology of the automorphism group Aut(F_n) of the free group F_n of rank n. This method is used also in the study of the stable rational cohomology of the IA-automorphism group IA_n of F_n. We propose a conjectural algebraic structure of the stable rational cohomology of IA_n, and consider some relations to known results and conjectures. We also consider a conjectural structure of the stable rational cohomology of the Torelli groups of surfaces. This is a joint work with Mai Katada.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2023/01/17
17:00-18:00 Online
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Chenghan Zha (The Univesity of Tokyo)
Integral structures in the local algebra of a singularity (ENGLISH)
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Chenghan Zha (The Univesity of Tokyo)
Integral structures in the local algebra of a singularity (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
We compute the image of the Milnor lattice of an ADE singularity under a period map. We also prove that the Milnor lattice can be identified with an appropriate relative K-group defined through the Berglund-Huebsch dual of the corresponding singularity. Furthermore, we figure out the image of the Milnor lattice of the singularity of an invertible polynomial of chain type using the basis of middle homology constructed by Otani-Takahashi. We calculated the Seifert form of the basis as well.
[ Reference URL ]We compute the image of the Milnor lattice of an ADE singularity under a period map. We also prove that the Milnor lattice can be identified with an appropriate relative K-group defined through the Berglund-Huebsch dual of the corresponding singularity. Furthermore, we figure out the image of the Milnor lattice of the singularity of an invertible polynomial of chain type using the basis of middle homology constructed by Otani-Takahashi. We calculated the Seifert form of the basis as well.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html