Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Nassif Ghoussoub

  • Date: 09/24/2013
  • Time: 15:30
Lecturer(s):
Nassif Ghoussoub, UBC
Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Symmetric Monge-Kantorovich problems and polar decompositions of vector fields

Description: 

For any given integer N larger than 2, we show that every bounded measurable vector field is N-cyclically monotone up to a measure preserving N-involution. The proof involves the solution of a multidimensional symmetric Monge-Kantorovich problem, which we first study in the case of a general cost function on a product domain. The proof exploits a remarkable duality between measure preserving transformations that are N-involutions and those Hamiltonians that are N-cyclically antisymmetric.

Other Information: 

Location: ESB 2012