Lecture 3

The graph orientation morphism: constructing a symmetry by using a graph cocycle.

 * Endomorphisms of the space of multivector fields. The Schouten bracket, its own Jacobi identity; the master-equation. The Richardson–Nijenhuis bracket, its own Jacobi identity; the master equation.

 * The edge (the stick in the construction of graph differential). The graph orientation morphism Or takes the stick to the Schouten bracket.

 * Verifying the property of the image of a graph cocycle under Or to be a Poisson cocycle. Canonical and incidental solutions of the problem of factorization via the Jacobiator. Topological identities in the spaces of Leibniz graphs.

 * Lie algebra homomorphism: from graph cocycles to symmetries of Poisson brackets.

Lecture 4

Open problems about the graph complex and Poisson bracket symmetries: the combinatorics of cocycles and Poisson non-triviality of the Kontsevich flows.

 * Deformation quantization: the noncommutative associative star-product, its associator, the factorization problem.

 * The action of graph complex on the space of Kontsevich’s star-products.

To sum up: We will define complementary series for hyperbolic groups and prove their irreducibility.

More precisely: The complementary series representations are a family of unitary representations that can be realized on the Gromov boundary of the hyperbolic group. They can be viewed as a one-parameter deformation of the quasi-regular representation arising on the boundary, « sometimes » approaching the trivial representation, in a certain sense. The starting point of this work is to find a suitable scalar product in order to unitarize the complementary series. Then, a spectral estimates combined with counting estimates enable us to prove an ergodic theorem à la Bader-Muchnik to achieve the irreducibility.

Joint work with Kevin Boucher and Jean-Claude Picaud.

In this course, we will discuss the use of convex integration to construct wild weak solutions in the context of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. In particular, we will outline the resolution of Onsager’s conjecture as well as the recent proof of non-uniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.

Onsager’s conjecture states that weak solutions to the Euler equation belonging to Hölder spaces with Hölder exponent greater than 1/3 conserve energy, and conversely, there exit weak solutionslying in any Hölder space with exponent less than 1/3 which dissipate energy. The conjecture itself is linked to the anomalous disspoation of energy in turbulent flows, which has been called the zeroth law of turbulence.

For initial datum of finite kinetic energy, Leray has proven that there exists at least one global in time finite energy weak solution of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations are not unique, within a class of weak solutions with finite kinetic energy. The non-uniqueness of Leray-Hopf solutions is the subset of a famous conjecture of Ladyzenskaja in ’69, and to date, this conjecture remains open.

In this course, we will discuss the use of convex integration to construct wild weak solutions in the context of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. In particular, we will outline the resolution of Onsager’s conjecture as well as the recent proof of non-uniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.

Onsager’s conjecture states that weak solutions to the Euler equation belonging to Hölder spaces with Hölder exponent greater than 1/3 conserve energy, and conversely, there exit weak solutionslying in any Hölder space with exponent less than 1/3 which dissipate energy. The conjecture itself is linked to the anomalous disspoation of energy in turbulent flows, which has been called the zeroth law of turbulence.

For initial datum of finite kinetic energy, Leray has proven that there exists at least one global in time finite energy weak solution of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations are not unique, within a class of weak solutions with finite kinetic energy. The non-uniqueness of Leray-Hopf solutions is the subset of a famous conjecture of Ladyzenskaja in ’69, and to date, this conjecture remains open.

In this course, we will discuss the use of convex integration to construct wild weak solutions in the context of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. In particular, we will outline the resolution of Onsager’s conjecture as well as the recent proof of non-uniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.

Onsager’s conjecture states that weak solutions to the Euler equation belonging to Hölder spaces with Hölder exponent greater than 1/3 conserve energy, and conversely, there exit weak solutionslying in any Hölder space with exponent less than 1/3 which dissipate energy. The conjecture itself is linked to the anomalous disspoation of energy in turbulent flows, which has been called the zeroth law of turbulence.

For initial datum of finite kinetic energy, Leray has proven that there exists at least one global in time finite energy weak solution of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations are not unique, within a class of weak solutions with finite kinetic energy. The non-uniqueness of Leray-Hopf solutions is the subset of a famous conjecture of Ladyzenskaja in ’69, and to date, this conjecture remains open.

We investigate properties of some spherical fonctions defined on hyperbolic groups using boundary representations on the Gromov boundary endowed with the Patterson-Sullivan measure class. We prove sharp decay estimates for spherical functions as well as spectral inequalities associated with boundary representations. This point of view on the boundary allows us to view the so-called property RD (Rapid Decay, also called Haagerup’s inequality) as a particular case of a more general behavior of spherical functions on hyperbolic groups. Then I will explain how these representations are related to the so-called « complementary series ». The problem of the unitarization of such representations will be at the heart of the discussion.
If time permits, I will try to explain the idea of a constructive proof, using a boundary unitary representation, of a result due to de la Harpe and Jolissaint asserting that hyperbolic groups satisfy property RD.

In this course, we will discuss the use of convex integration to construct wild weak solutions in the context of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. In particular, we will outline the resolution of Onsager’s conjecture as well as the recent proof of non-uniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.

Onsager’s conjecture states that weak solutions to the Euler equation belonging to Hölder spaces with Hölder exponent greater than 1/3 conserve energy, and conversely, there exit weak solutionslying in any Hölder space with exponent less than 1/3 which dissipate energy. The conjecture itself is linked to the anomalous disspoation of energy in turbulent flows, which has been called the zeroth law of turbulence.

For initial datum of finite kinetic energy, Leray has proven that there exists at least one global in time finite energy weak solution of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations are not unique, within a class of weak solutions with finite kinetic energy. The non-uniqueness of Leray-Hopf solutions is the subset of a famous conjecture of Ladyzenskaja in ’69, and to date, this conjecture remains open.

In this talk, I will survey some recent progress towards understanding the slopes of modular forms, with or without level structures. This has direct application to the conjecture of Breuil-Buzzard-Emerton on the slopes of Kisin’s crystabelline deformation spaces. In particular, we obtain certain refined version of the spectral halo conjecture, where we may identify explicitly the slopes at the boundary when given a reducible non-split generic residual local Galois representation. This is a joint work in progress with Ruochuan Liu, Nha Truong, and Bin Zhao.

Let W be a Coxeter group. We provide a precise description of the conjugacy classes in W, yielding an analogue of Matsumoto’s theorem for the conjugacy problem in arbitrary Coxeter groups. This extends to all Coxeter groups an important result on finite Coxeter groups by M. Geck and G. Pfeiffer from 1993. In particular, we describe the cyclically reduced elements of W, thereby proving a conjecture of A. Cohen from 1994.

Along with a strict determinism of early embryogenesis in most living organisms, the variability of cell fates and developmental pathways exhibits in some of them. We propose that both determinism and variability are established through cell interactions, with the important role played by cell potency, cell sensitivity and cell signaling. The sensitivity of embryonic stem cells is considered to be strong, while the sensitivity of fully differentiated cells is small. This means that high potency correlates with high sensitivity, and vice versa. Experimental data were obtained and analyzed for the early developmental stages of plant species with regular and  irregular types of embryogenesis, which explicit correspondingly determinism or variability of developmental pathways. For the irregular type the species with underdeveloped embryos in mature seeds were examined. As the result, we propose three conjectures for explanation the phenomenon of variability, leading to the invariant final embryo shape, and support each of  these cases with the example(s) of actual developmental pathways.

For an automorphism of an algebraic variety, we consider some properties of eigenvalues of the induced linear transformation on l-adic cohomology, motivated by some results from complex dynamics, related to the notion of entropy. This is a report on joint work with Hélène Esnault, and some subsequent work of K. Shuddhodan.