Jiaping Wang, U. Minnesota
Abstract: The classical de Rham-Hodge theory implies that each cohomology class of a compact manifold is uniquely represented by a harmonic form, signifying the important role of Laplacian in geometry. The talk aims to explain some results concerning the size and structure of its spectrum. After a brief…
Jiaping Wang, U. Minnesota
Abstract: The entropy rate of a stationary sequence of random symbols was introduced by Shannon in his foundational work on information theory in 1948. In the early 1950s, Kolmogorov and Sinai realized that they could turn this quantity into an isomorphism invariant for measure-preserving…