Magnetic geodesics and Cheeger-esque inequalities for 1-forms
| When | Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 12:20 pm - 1:30 pm |
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| Where | 114 McAllister |
| Speaker | Cameron Rudd (zoom), University of Oxford |
| Contact | Rachel Weaver, Dmitri Burago, Anton Petrunin, Jeffrey Case, Dawit Mengesha |
Abstract
I will discuss the Laplacian for differential 1-forms and how its small eigenvalues relate to isoperimetric inequalities (involving length, area, and stable commutator length) and the dynamics of magnetic geodesic flows via Mañé's critical values.