Tue, 25 Oct 2022
14:00
L6

Sums of squares in group algebras and vanishing of cohomology

Piotr Nowak
(Institute of Mathematics - Polish Academy of Sciences)
Abstract

I will discuss algebraic conditions that for a given group guarantee or characterize the vanishing of cohomology in a given degree with coefficients in any unitary representation. These conditions will be expressed in terms positivity of certain elements over group algebras, where positivity is meant as being a sum of hermitian squares. I will explain how conditions like this can be used to give computer-assisted proofs of vanishing of cohomology. 

Thu, 15 Nov 2018

12:00 - 13:00
L4

Biot-Savart law for irregular vorticity measures and Kaden's approximations

Tomasz Cieslak
(Institute of Mathematics - Polish Academy of Sciences)
Abstract

I will prove the 2d Biot-Savart law for the vorticity being an unbounded measure $\mu$, i.e. such that $\mu(\mathbb{R}^2)=\infty$, and show how can one infer some useful information concerning Kaden's spirals using it. Vorticities being unbounded measures appear naturally in the engineering literature as self-similar approximations of 2d Euler flows, see for instance Kaden's or Prandtl's spirals. Mathematicians are interested in such objects since they seem to be related to the questions of well-posedness of Delort's solutions of the 2d vortex sheet problem for the Euler equation. My talk is based on a common paper with K.Oleszkiewicz, M. Preisner and M. Szumanska.

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