For any irregular prime p, one has a Hida family of cuspidal eigenforms of level 1 whose residual Galois representations are all reducible. This family has already played a starring role in Wiles’ proof of Iwasawa’s main conjecture for totally real fields. In this talk, we instead focus on the Iwasawa theory of these modular forms in their own right. We will discuss new phenomena that occur in this residually reducible case including the fact that analytic mu-invariants are unbounded in this family and directly related to the p-adic zeta-function. This is a joint work with Joel Bellaiche.
In this talk I shall provide a survey of my recent works and their environs on differential geometry of Lagrangian submanifolds in specific K\"ahler manifolds, such as complex projective spaces, complex space forms, Hermitian symmetric spaces and so on. I shall emphasis on the relationship between certain minimal Lagrangian submanifold in complex hyperquadrics and isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. This talk is mainly based on my joint work with Associate Professor Hui Ma (Tsinghua University, Beijing).
An isometric action of a connected Lie group on a Riemannian manifold is called polar if there exists a connected closed submanifold that meets each orbit of the action and intersects it orthogonally. Dadok established in 1985 a remarkable, and mysterious, relation between polar actions on Euclidean spaces and Riemannian symmetric spaces. Soon afterwards an attempt was made to classify polar actions on symmetric spaces. For irreducible symmetric spaces of compact type the final step of the classification has just been achieved by Kollross and Lytchak. In the talk I want to focus on symmetric spaces of noncompact type. For actions of reductive groups one can use the concept of duality between symmetric spaces of compact type and of noncompact type. However, new examples and phenomena arise from the geometry induced by actions of parabolic subgroups, for which there is no analogon in the compact case. I plan to discuss the main difficulties one encounters here and some partial solutions.
We study some problems relating to polynomials evaluated either at random Gaussian or random Bernoulli inputs. We present a structure theorem for degree-d polynomials with Gaussian inputs. In particular, if p is a given degree-d polynomial, then p can be written in terms of some bounded number of other polynomials q_1,...,q_m so that the joint probability density function of q_1(G),...,q_m(G) is close to being bounded. This says essentially that any abnormalities in the distribution of p(G) can be explained by the way in which p decomposes into the q_i. We then present some applications of this result.
Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a bounded domain represent the modes of vibration of a vibrating drum. The behavior of these eigenfunctions is closely related to the behavior of the underlying dynamical system of the billiard table. In this talk I first give a brief exposition on this relation and then I talk about the boundary traces of eigenfunctions and a recent joint work with Han, Hassell and Zelditch.
I will outline a construction of an exotic solution of the nonlinear
Schrödinger equation that exhibits a big frequency cascade. Recent advances
related to this construction and some open questions will be surveyed.
Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a bounded domain represent the modes of vibration of a vibrating drum. The behavior of these eigenfunctions is closely related to the behavior of the underlying dynamical system of the billiard table. In this talk I first give a brief exposition on this relation and then I talk about the boundary traces of eigenfunctions and a recent joint work with Han, Hassell and Zelditch.