Columbia Mathematics Department Colloquium
Homogenization and symplectic topology
by
Claude Viterbo
Columbia University and Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Abstract:
Starting from some concrete problem we shall explain how the problem of Homogenization in symplectic geometry appears in a natural way. The construction of the Homogenization operator involves some deep question of symplectic topology. It also has applications to different questions from dynamical systems to Hamilton-Jacobi equations.