Seminar series
          
      Date
              Thu, 09 Feb 2017
      
17:30
          17:30
Location
              L6
          Speaker
              Patrick Speissegger
          Organisation
              Mcmaster
          In 1923, Dulac published a proof of the claim that every real analytic vector field on the plane has only finitely many limit cycles (now known as Dulac's Problem). In the mid-1990s, Ilyashenko completed Dulac's proof; his completion rests on the construction of a quasianalytic class of functions. Unfortunately, this class has very few known closure properties. For various reasons I will explain, we are interested in constructing a larger quasianalytic class that is also a Hardy field. This can be achieved using Ilyashenko's idea of superexact asymptotic expansion. (Joint work with Tobias Kaiser)