Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

The shift locus of (monic and centered) complex polynomials of degree d > 1 is the set of polynomials whose filled-in Julia set contains no critical points. Traversing a loop in the shift locus gives rise to a holomorphic motion of Cantor Julia sets, which can be extended to a homeomorphism of the plane minus a Cantor set up to isotopy. Therefore there is a well-defined monodromy representation from the fundamental group of the shift locus to the mapping class group of the plane minus a Cantor set. In this talk, I will discuss the image and the kernel of this map as well as a combinatorial model for the shift locus. This is joint work with J. Bavard, D. Calegari, S. Koch and A. Walker.

Aldous-Broder algorithm is a famous algorithm used to sample a uniform spanning tree of any finite connected graph G, but it is more general: it states that given a reversible M Markov chain on G started at r, the tree rooted at r formed by the steps of successive first entrance in each node (different from the root) has a probability proportional to $\prod_{e=(e1,e2)∈Edges(t,r)}M_{e1,e2}$ , where the edges are directed toward r. As stated, it allows to sample many distributions on the set of spanning trees. In this paper we extend Aldous-Broder theorem by dropping the reversibility condition on M. We highlight that the general statement we prove is not the same as the original one (but it coincides in the reversible case with that of Aldous and Broder). We prove this extension in two ways: an adaptation of the classical argument, which is purely probabilistic, and a new proof based on combinatorial arguments. On the way we introduce a new combinatorial object that we call the golf sequences.

Based on joint work with Luis Fredes, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08639

In 1980, Lennart Carleson introduced the following problem for the free Schrödinger equation: when does the solution converge to the initial datum pointwise almost everywhere? Of course, the answer is immediate for regular functions like Schwartz functions. However, the question of what Sobolev regularity is necessary and sufficient for convergence turned out to be highly non-trivial. After the work of many people, it has been solved in 2019, following important advances in harmonic analysis. But interesting variations of the problem are still open. For instance, what happens with periodic solutions in the torus? And what if we refine the almost everywhere convergence to convergence with respect to fractal Hausdorff measures? Together with Renato Lucà (BCAM, Spain), we tackled these two questions. In the talk, I will present our results after explaining the basics of the problem.

After reviewing classical results about existence of completions of varieties, I will talk about a class of degenerations of toric varieties which have a combinatorial classification - normal toric varieties over rank one valuation rings. I will then discuss recent results about the existence of equivariant completions of such degenerations. In particular, I will show a result from my thesis about the existence of normal equivariant completions of these degenerations.

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