UNAM

Combinatorial harmonic maps

Ponente: Peter Scott
Institución: University of Michigan
Tipo de Evento: Researcher

When Nov 12, 2015
from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM
Where Salon de Seminarios Graciela Salicrup
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In joint work with Joel Hass, we define a combinatorial energy for maps from surfaces to manifolds. There are existence and uniqueness results for combinatorial harmonic maps very similar to those obtained using the more usual energy, but much simpler to prove. These results are well suited to applications in low dimensional topology. I will discuss our results and some of these applications.