Rigidity for expanding maps

Series
CDSNS Colloquium
Time
Monday, January 13, 2020 - 11:15am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Federico Rodriguez Hertz – Penn State – hertz@math.psu.edu
Organizer
Albert Fathi

In a recent work with A. Gogolev we found some new form of rigidity for expanding maps through marching of potentials (also named cocycles). In this talk I plan to discuss these rigidity results and explain how this relates to some old results by Shub and Sullivan and de la Llave.