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Abstracts for Conference "Dynamics: Topology and Numbers", July 2 - 6, 2018

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Joint equidistribution within 4 modular surfaces and 2 spheres

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Speaker: 
Manfred Einsiedler
Affiliation: 
ETH Zürich
Date: 
Mon, 02/07/2018 - 10:00 - 10:50
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We will discuss an equidistribution problem concerning rational planes in four-space. Due to an accidental isomorphism this problem relates in a natural manner to the simultaneous study of four CM-points on the modular surface and two points on the two-dimensional sphere. Using Duke's theorem and a joining classification we obtain joint equidistribution under suitable congruence conditions on the covolume of the planes.
This is joint work with Menny Aka and Andreas Wieser, and relies on a joint theorem with Elon Lindenstrauss.

On the Liouville property of action of discrete groups

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Speaker: 
Kate Juschenko
Affiliation: 
Northwestern University
Date: 
Mon, 02/07/2018 - 11:30 - 12:20
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We will discuss the Liouville property of actions, relate it to amenability and to additive combinatorics
for certain classes of groups. One of the central part of the discussion will be Thompson group F.
We will discuss several open problems in additive combinatorics which relate to Liouville property of certain actions of Thompson group.

Dynamics on abelian varieties in positive characteristic

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Speaker: 
Gunter Cornelissen
Affiliation: 
Universiteit Utrecht
Date: 
Mon, 02/07/2018 - 14:00 - 14:50
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We show that the dynamics of endomorphisms of abelian varieties (e.g., elliptic curves) over field of characteristic $p>0$ is sharply divided according to two possible scenario’s, reflected in properties of the Artin-Mazur zeta function (transcendental/rational) and orbit growth, somewhat similar to the mixing/non-mixing dichotomy in measurable dynamics. The two scenario’s are distinguished by the action on the $p$-torsion subgroup scheme.

On the topology of integer polynomials with bounded coefficients

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Speaker: 
De-Jun Feng
Affiliation: 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 
Mon, 02/07/2018 - 15:00 - 15:50
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Let $q>1$ be a real number and $m\geq 1$ an integer. Let $Y$ denote the set of number $f(q)$ where  $f$ runs over  the integer polynomials with height not exceeding $m$. In this talk, we consider an old question when  $Y$ is dense in the real line. This question is closely related to  the studies of Bernoulli convolutions,  beta-expansions  and iterated functions systems. We prove the following conjecture of Erd\H{o}s et al.:  $Y$ is dense if and only if  $q$ is less than $m+1$ and is non-Pisot.

Life and Mathematics of Sergiĭ Kolyada

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Speaker: 
Ľubomír Snoha
Affiliation: 
Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
Date: 
Mon, 02/07/2018 - 16:30 - 17:20
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Sergiĭ Kolyada was a distinguished Ukrainian mathematician working in the theory of dynamical systems. He was born on December 7th, 1957 and passed away on May 16th, 2018.

The first part of the talk will be devoted to important moments of his life. In the second part we will briefly discuss some of his scientific contributions to low dimensional and topological dynamics.
 

Audience recollections of Sergiĭ Kolyada

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Audience recollections
Date: 
Mon, 02/07/2018 - 17:20 - 18:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Special alpha-limit sets

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Speaker: 
Michal Misiurewicz
Affiliation: 
IUOUI, Indianapolis
Date: 
Tue, 03/07/2018 - 10:00 - 10:50
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

This is an unfinished work, started last year with Sergiy Kolyada and
Lubomir Snoha. I hoped all three of us would complete it during this

meeting...

We investigate the notion of the special alpha-limit set of a point.

For a given map of a compact space to itself, it is defined as the
union of the sets of accumulation points over all backward branches of
the map. We consider mainly the case of interval maps. We give many
examples showing how those sets may look like. The main question is

Rigid and rigid-like spaces in topological dynamics

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Speaker: 
Ľubomír Snoha
Affiliation: 
Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
Date: 
Tue, 03/07/2018 - 11:30 - 12:20
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

A space is rigid if the only continuous selfmaps of this space are the constant maps and the identity. We show that rigid spaces, in fact so called Cook continua, can be used to produce spaces with nontrivial interesting dynamics. We also discuss `rigid-like' spaces in topological dynamics; as an application we get that the class of compact metric spaces admitting minimal maps is not closed with respect to products.

 

Teichmuller curves mod $p$

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Speaker: 
Ronen Mukamel
Affiliation: 
Rice University, Houston
Date: 
Tue, 03/07/2018 - 14:00 - 14:50
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

A Teichmuller curve is a totally geodesic curve in the moduli space of Riemann surfaces. These curves are defined by polynomials with integer coefficients which are irreducible over $\mathbb C$. We will show that these polynomials have surprising factorizations mod $p$.  This is joint work with Keerthi Madapusi Pera.

Height pairings and preperiodic points in P^1

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Speaker: 
Laura DeMarco
Affiliation: 
Northwestern University
Date: 
Tue, 03/07/2018 - 15:00 - 15:50
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

In 2011, Matt Baker and I used height functions and arithmetic equidistribution to show when two complex rational functions have only finitely many (pre-)periodic points in common.  In this talk, I will explain how to obtain uniform bounds in families, inspired by questions and conjectures about elliptic curves and their torsion points.  The key ingredient is an estimate on the Arakelov-Zhang intersection numbers in families of heights.  This is joint work with Holly Krieger and Hexi Ye.

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