LMS HAnPDE network meeting

25 April 2022

Edinburgh

Speakers

Gian Maria Dall'Ara (Scuola Normale Superiore)

John Green (University of Edinburgh)

Joris Roos (University of Edinburgh / University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Zoe Wyatt (University of Cambridge)


Venue and travel information: G.03/Atrium, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh, EH8 9BT

Organisers: Jonathan Hickman and Jim Wright

No registration is required, but if you are attending please contact Jonathan Hickman at jonathan.hickman@ed.ac.uk (to help estimate numbers).

This event is funded by the LMS Scheme 3 and the University of Edinburgh

Programme

13:10 - 13:55: John Green (University of Edinburgh)

Title: Connections between scalar oscillatory integrals and sublevel set estimates

Abstract: In a relatively general setting, it is known that decay estimates for scalar oscillatory integrals imply volume estimates for the sublevel sets of the phase function, and this implication is stable in the sense that whenever oscillatory integrals with different phases all satisfy the same estimates, the resulting estimates for sublevel sets are uniform over that set of phase functions. Reversing this implication is much more difficult, and understanding when this is true is helpful for understanding scalar oscillatory integral estimates. We shall consider some situations in which the reverse implication holds in the presence of additional, qualitative assumptions on the structure of the phase function. We first give some results in one dimension, then address the setting of convex functions in higher dimensions.

14:00 - 14:20: Tea & coffee

14:20- 15:05: Gian Maria Dall'Ara (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Title: Sharp subelliptic estimates for the d-bar - problem via an uncertainty principle

Abstract: I am going to present very recent progress on the classical subellipticity problem for the d-bar-equation on a smooth pseudoconvex domain in C^n. Despite deep contributions by Kohn, Greiner, Stein, Catlin and D'Angelo (among others), the question of determining the sharp order of subellipticity in terms of the boundary geometry of the domain is wide open.


I am not going to assume familiarity with the theory of the d-bar-equation in several complex variables. This is joint work with S. Mongodi (UniversitĂ  Milano-Bicocca).

15:10 - 15:55: Joris Roos (University of Edinburgh / University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Title: On the strict majorant property in higher dimensions

Abstract: This talk concerns a circle of questions on L^p majorant properties of trigonometric polynomials going back to work of Hardy and Littlewood in the 1930s.


After a brief historical review, we will focus on the strict majorant property in d dimensions and

give a necessary and sufficient condition for frequency sets that determines when this property must fail for some p>0.

This is joint work with Phil Gressman, Shaoming Guo, Lillian Pierce and Po-Lam Yung.

16:00 - 16:20: Tea & coffee

16:20 - 17:05: Zoe Wyatt (University of Cambridge)

Title: The Dirac equation in 2 and 3 spatial dimensions

Abstract: This talk will focus on small-data global existence results for coupled wave and Klein-Gordon equations in two and three spatial dimensions. Surprisingly, these problems are less systematically understood, and several open systems remain across the possible spectrum of wave--wave, wave--KG and KG--KG interactions. I will particularly focus on the Dirac equation which, depending on the Dirac field mass, can encode both wave or Klein-Gordon behaviour. I will present a recent proof of small data global-existence and sharp asymptotics for a Dirac--Klein-Gordon system in two spatial dimensions with Shijie Dong (SUSTech).

1930 -- : Dinner