Problems in Combinatorial Number Theory.

Series
Dissertation Defense
Time
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Gagik Amirkhanyan – Georgia Tech – gagik@math.gatech.edu
Organizer
Gagik Amirkhanyan
The talk consists of two parts.The first part is devoted to results in Discrepancy Theory. We consider geometric discrepancy in higher dimensions (d > 2) and obtain estimates in Exponential Orlicz Spaces. We establish a series of dichotomy-type results for the discrepancy function which state that if the $L^1$ norm of the discrepancy function is too small (smaller than the conjectural bound), then the discrepancy function has to be very large in some other function space.The second part of the thesis is devoted to results in Additive Combinatorics. For a set with small doubling an order-preserving Freiman 2-isomorphism is constructed which maps the set to a dense subset of an interval. We also present several applications.