The two-sphere is hydrodynamically unbounded

03/22/2013 - 11:00
03/22/2013 - 12:00
Speaker: 
Egor Shelukhin, (CRM)
Location: 
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Abstract: 

A first interesting question on the large-scale geometry  of a metric space is whether it has finite or infinite diameter. We  answer this question for the hydrodynamic L^2 (or more generally  L^p) metric on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms  of the two-sphere, showing that the diameter is infinite. This solves  the last open instance of such an unboundedness question for  closed surfaces. 

The talk is based on a joint work with Michael Brandenbursky. 

Web site : http://www.cirget.uqam.ca/pages/activ/seminaires_fr.shtml

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