In joint work with François Maucourant, we study the dynamics of unipotent flows on frame bundles of hyperbolic manifolds of infinite volume. We prove that they are topologically transitive, and that the natural invariant measure, the so-called « Burger-Roblin measure », is ergodic, as soon as the geodesic flow admits a finite measure of maximal entropy, and this entropy is strictly greater than the codimension of the unipotent flow inside the maximal unipotent flow. The latter result generalises a theorem of Mohammadi and Oh.

In the talk, I will present the main ideas of this work.

 

We introduce Feynman categories and show that they naturally define bi-algebras. In good circumstances these bi-algebras have Hopf quotients. Corresponding to several levels of sophistication and decoration (both terms have technical definitions), we recover the Hopf algebras of Goncharov and Brown from number theory, a Hopf algebra of Baues used in the analysis of double loop spaces and the various Hopf algebras of Connes-Kreimer used in QFT as examples of the general theory. Co-actions also appear naturally in this context as we will explain.

We will first define the moduli space of algebraic-group-valued representations of finitely presented groups. Then we will briefly describe how non-commutative rings influence the structure of the coordinate ring of these moduli spaces. Lastly, we will illustrate this general relationship by constructing minimal generating sets of the coordinate rings of these moduli spaces in some specific examples.

In this talk we will discuss an ongoing work on random field models. First we will review a work by Parisi and Sourlas. They conjectured that the infrared fixed point of such random field models should be described by a supersymmetric conformal field theory (CFT). From this they argued that the disordered CFT admits a description in terms of a CFT in two less spacetime dimensions but without the disorder. We will explain how the dimensional reduction is realized. Finally we will discuss when and how the RG flow of the random field theory reaches the SUSY fixed point.

Using Dwork’s trace formula, we express the exponential sum associated to a Laurent polynomial as the trace of a chain map on a twisted de Rham complex for the torus over the p-adic field. Treating the coefficients of the polynomial as parameters, we obtain the p-adic Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky (GKZ) system, which is a complex of $D^{dagger}$-modules with Frobenius structure.

Minkowski space of dimension 2+1 is the Lorentzian analogue of Euclidean 3-space. It is well-known that there exists an isometric embedding of the hyperbolic plane in Minkowski space, which is the analogue of the embedding of the round sphere in Euclidean space. However, differently from the Euclidean case, the embedding of the hyperbolic plane is not unique up to global isometries. In this talk I will discuss several results on the classification of these embeddings, and explain how this problem is related to Monge-Ampère equations, harmonic maps, and Teichmüller theory. This is joint work with Francesco Bonsante and Peter Smillie.

Let p be a rational prime, $q>1$ a p-power and P a non-constant irreducible polynomial in $F_q[t]$. The notion of Drinfeld modular form is an analogue over $F_q(t)$ of that of elliptic modular form. Numerical computations suggest that Drinfeld modular forms enjoy some P-adic structures comparable to the elliptic analogue, while at present their P-adic properties are less well understood than the p-adic elliptic case. In 1990s, Taguchi established duality theories for Drinfeld modules and also for a certain class of finite flat group schemes called finite $nu$-modules. Using the duality for the latter, we can define a function field analogue of the Hodge-Tate map. In this talk, I will explain how the Taguchi’s theory and our Hodge-Tate map yield results on Drinfeld modular forms which are classical to elliptic modular forms e.g. P-adic congruences of Fourier coefficients imply p-adic congruences of weights.

Hitchin representations are an important class of representations of fundamental groups of closed hyperbolic surfaces into PSL(n,R), at the heart of higher Teichmüller theory. Given such a representation j, there is a unique j-equivariant harmonic map from the universal cover of the hyperbolic surface to the symmetric space of PSL(n,R). We show that its energy density is at least 1 and that rigidity holds. In particular, we show that given a Hitchin representation, every equivariant minimal immersion from the hyperbolic plane into the symmetric space of PSL(n,R) is distance-increasing. Moreover, equality holds at one point if and only if it holds everywhere and the given Hitchin representation j is an n-Fuchsian representation.

I will explain how the conformal bootstrap can be adapted to place rigorous bounds on the spectra of automorphic forms on locally symmetric spaces. A locally symmetric space is of the form HG/K, where G is a non-compact semisimple Lie group, K the maximal compact subgroup of G, and H a discrete subgroup of G. If we take G = SL(2,R), then spaces of this form are precisely hyperbolic surfaces and hyperbolic 2-orbifolds. Automorphic forms then come in two types: modular forms, and eigenfunctions of the hyperbolic Laplacian, also known as Maass forms. The bootstrap constraints arise from the associativity of function multiplication on the space HG, and are very similar to the usual correlator bootstrap equations, with G playing the role of the conformal group. For G=SL(2,R), I will use this method to prove upper bounds on the lowest positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian on all closed hyperbolic surfaces of a fixed genus. The bounds at genus 2 and genus 3 are very nearly saturated by the Bolza surface and the Klein quartic. This is based on upcoming work with P. Kravchuk and S. Pal.

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I shall report about a new direct construction of Nori motives, discovered independently by Barbieri-Viale and Prest on the one hand, by Joyal and myself on the other hand. Unlike previous constructions, one uses only standard constructions in category theory, like Frey free abelian category on a given additive category, and Serre’s construction of quotient categories.