Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

 The classical theorems of Perron and Frobenius, which explore spectral properties of nonnegative matrices, have been extensively examined and generalized from various perspectives, including a cone-theoretic (geometric) viewpoint. Concurrently, in the past decade, there has been a notable effort to fuse the techniques of algebraic geometry and combinatorics in an exploration of Lorentzian polynomials by Brändén and Huh, also known as completely log-concave polynomials (CLC) by Anari et.al. or strongly log-concave polynomials by Gurvits.

In this talk, I will discuss my ongoing joint work with Greg Blekherman regarding the class of polynomials with Lorentzian signature (PLS) defined over closed convex cones. This class encompasses various special polynomials, including Lorentzian polynomials over the nonnegative orthant and hyperbolic polynomials over hyperbolicity cones. We establish a compelling connection between PLS over a self-dual cone K and the generalized Perron Frobenius theorem over K. This connection enables us to provide an alternative necessary and sufficient condition to characterize the Lorentzian polynomials.

 Every graph is associated to a symmetric function constructed from proper colorings of the graph.  The Stanley-Stembridge conjecture posits that the expansion of the chromatic symmetric function into the elementary symmetric functions has positive coefficients for a certain class of graphs.  We explore a potential new approach to the Stanley-Stembridge Conjecture using combinatorial objects called "special rim hooks" and connect this to the "chromatic quasisymmetric functions" introduced by Shareshian and Wachs as a generalization of chromatic symmetric functions.  This is joint work with Meagan Hodge.

Braid groups are relatively simple to describe, but they have deep and intricate connections to many different areas of math. We will discuss three specific instances where the braid group on 3 strands arises in geometry and knot theory. In exploring connections between these perspectives, we will take a detour into the world of elliptic curves and their moduli space. As a result, we will see that these three perspectives are actually the same. Time permitting, we will explore generalizations of this to the braid group on n strands for n > 3.

It has been known since the pioneering work of J.L. Lions in 1960s that 3D hyper-dissipative (HD) Navier-Stokes (NS) system exhibits global-in-time regularity as long as the hyper-diffusion exponent is greater or equal to 5/4.  One should note that at 5/4, the system is critical, i.e., the energy level and the scaling -invariant level coincide. What happens in the super-critical regime, the hyper-diffusion exponent being strictly between 1 and 5/4 remained a mystery. 

The goal of this talk is to demonstrate that as soon as the hyper-diffusion exponent is greater than 1, a class of monotone blow-up scenarios consistent with the analytic structure of the flow (prior to the possible singular time) can be ruled out (a sort of 'runaway train' scenario). The argument is in the spirit of the regularity theory of the 3D HD NS system in 'turbulent scenario' (in the super-critical regime) developed by Grujic and Xu, relying on 'dynamic interpolation' – however, it is much shorter, tailored to the class of blow-up profiles in view. This is a joint work with Aseel Farhat.