On the bi-analytic version of the Mitiagin-DeLeeuw-Mirkhil non-inequality

Speaker: 

Michał Wojciechowski

Institution: 

Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Time: 

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - 11:00am

Host: 

Paata Ivanisvili

Location: 

440R

Using the method of Rudin-Shapiro polynomials we prove the bi-analytic version of the Mitiagin - DeLeeuw - Mirkhil non-inequality for complex partial differential operators with constant coefficients on bi-disc

Regularity of vector stationary processes and matrix weight boundedness of singular integrals

Speaker: 

Alexander Volberg

Institution: 

Michigan State University

Time: 

Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

Masani and Wiener asked to characterize the regularity of vector stationary stochastic processes. The question easily translates to a harmonic analysis question: for what matrix weights the Hilbert transform is bounded with respect to this weight? We solved this problem with Sergei Treil in 1996 introducing the matrix A_2 condition.

But what is the sharp estimate of the Hilbert transform in terms of matrix A_2 norm? This is still unknown in a striking difference with scalar case.

Convex body valued operators helped to get the estimate via norm raised to the power 3/2. But shouldn't it be power 1? 

We construct an example of a rather natural operator for which the estimate in scalar and vector case is indeed different. But it is not the Hilbert transform.

Dimension reduction for incompressible subsets of $\ell_p$

Speaker: 

Alexandros Eskenazis

Institution: 

Sorbonne Université

Time: 

Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

We present a Johnson-Lindenstrauss-type dimension reduction algorithm with additive error for incompressible subsets of $\ell_p$. The proof relies on a derandomized version of Maurey’s empirical method and a combinatorial idea of Ball.

On a j-Santaló conjecture

Speaker: 

Christos Saroglou

Institution: 

University of Ioannina

Time: 

Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 10:00am

Location: 

Zoom ID: 99342387189

Let $k\geq 2$ be an integer. In the spirit of Kolesnikov-Werner, for each $j\in\{2,\ldots,k\}$, we conjecture a sharp Santaló type inequality (we call it $j$-Santal\'{o} conjecture)  for many sets (or more generally for many functions), which we are able to confirm in some cases, including the case $j=k$ and the unconditional case. Interestingly, the extremals of this family of inequalities are tuples of the $l_j^n$-ball. 
Our results also strengthen one of the main results of Kolesnikov-Werner, which corresponds to the case $j=2$. All members of the family of our conjectured inequalities can be interpreted as generalizations of the classical Blaschke-Santaló inequality.
Related, we discuss an analogue of a conjecture due to K. Ball in the multi-entry setting and establish a connection to the $j$-Santaló conjecture.

Noncommutative Bohnenblust--Hille inequalities and applications to quantum learning

Speaker: 

Haonan Zhang

Speaker Link: 

https://sites.google.com/view/haonanzhangmathsearch-console/home

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 11:00am

Host: 

Paata Ivanisvili

Location: 

RH 306

Bohnenblust--Hille (BH) inequalities are an extension of Littlewood's 4/3 inequality and have found many applications to harmonic analysis. A variant of BH inequalities for Boolean cubes has been proven with constants that are dimension-free and subexponential in degree. Such inequalities have found great applications in learning low-degree Boolean functions. Motivated by learning quantum observables, a quantum analog of BH inequality for Boolean cubes was recently conjectured and resolved unaware of the conjecture. In this talk, we give a simpler proof with better constants. As applications, we study learning problems for quantum observables of low degrees. Joint work with Alexander Volberg.

Continuous analytic capacity, rectifiability and holomorphic motions

Speaker: 

Malik Younsi

Speaker Link: 

https://math.hawaii.edu/~myounsi/

Institution: 

University of Hawaii

Time: 

Thursday, June 30, 2022 - 3:00pm

Host: 

Paata Ivanisvili

Location: 

RH 306

In this talk, I will present several geometric and analytic characterizations of purely unrectifiable quasicircles. These necessary and sufficient conditions are expressed in terms of various notions such as Dirichlet algebras, harmonic measure, analytic capacity and continuous analytic capacity. As an application, I will explain how to construct a compact set whose continuous analytic capacity does not vary continuously under a certain holomorphic motion. This answers a question raised by Paul Gauthier.

A stationary set method for estimating oscillatory integrals

Speaker: 

Ruixiang Zhang

Speaker Link: 

https://sites.google.com/view/ruixiang-zhang/home

Institution: 

UC Berkeley

Time: 

Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 11:00am

Host: 

Paata Ivanisvili

Location: 

RH 306

Given a polynomial $P$ of constant degree in $d$ variables and consider the oscillatory integral $$I_P = \int_{[0,1]^d} e(P(\xi)) \mathrm{d}\xi.$$ Assuming $d$ is also fixed, what is a good upper bound of $|I_P|$? In this talk, I will introduce a ``stationary set'' method that gives an upper bound with simple geometric meaning. The proof of this bound mainly relies on the theory of o-minimal structures. As an application of our bound, we obtain the sharp convergence exponent in the two dimensional Tarry's problem for every degree via additional analysis on stationary sets. Consequently, we also prove the sharp $L^{\infty} \to L^p$ Fourier extension estimates for every two dimensional Parsell-Vinogradov surface whenever the endpoint of the exponent $p$ is even. This is joint work with Saugata Basu, Shaoming Guo and Pavel Zorin-Kranich.

The characteristic polynomial of sums of random permutations

Speaker: 

Yizhe Zhu

Speaker Link: 

https://sites.google.com/uci.edu/yizhezhu

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

Let $A_n$ be the sum of $d$ permutations matrices of size $n×n$, each drawn uniformly at random and independently. We prove that $\det( I_n−zA_n/\sqrt{d})$ converges when $n\to\infty$ towards a random analytic function on the unit disk. As an application, we obtain an elementary proof of the spectral gap of random regular digraphs with a sharp constant. Our results are valid both in the regime where $d$ is fixed and for $d$ slowly growing with $n$. Joint work with Simon Coste and Gaultier Lambert.

Sharp multiplicative inequality on BMO

Speaker: 

Pavel Zatitskiy

Institution: 

Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg

Time: 

Friday, February 25, 2022 - 11:00am

Host: 

Paata Ivanisvili

Location: 

340P

We find the sharp constant C in the inequality $\|\phi\|_{L^r} \leq C \|\phi\|_{L^p}^{p/r} \|\phi\|_{BMO}^{1-p/r}$, where $1\leq p\leq r<+\infty$. We use the Bellman function machinery to solve this problem. The Bellman function of three variables corresponding to this problem has a rather complicated structure, however, we managed to provide the explicit formulas for this function. Based on joint works with D. Stolyarov, V. Vasyunin,  and  I. Zlotnikov. 

Measures with given marginals and information economics

Speaker: 

Fedor Sandomirskiy

Speaker Link: 

https://fedors.info/

Institution: 

Caltech

Time: 

Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 11:00am

Host: 

Paata Ivanisvili

Location: 

RH 306

There is a connection between the problem of Bayesian persuasion (an informed agent aims to induce desirable behavior of uninformed ones by tailoring the information available to them) and feasibility questions for measures with given marginals. We will discuss the two problems, their connection, and related open questions.

 

The talk is based on two papers:

 "Feasible Joint Posterior Beliefs" with Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko, and Omer Tamuz 

and "Private Private information" with Kevin He and Omer Tamuz.

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