Modul:   MAT772  Geometrie-Seminar

Littlewood and large forests

Talk by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Monod

Date: 14.03.18  Time: 15.45 - 18.00  Room: ETH HG G 43

I will review the Dixmier Problem, open since 1950, which asks for a condition ensuring that all representations of a given group are unitarisable. This can be related to analytic conditions and to geometric constructions such as random forests.
I will also present recent work with Gerasimova, Gruber and Thom, where the Dixmier Problem is related to the asymptotic properties of isoperimetric constants.