Mathematical physics seminar
Date: Tuesdays 11:15-12:45 Uhr
Venue: 1.023 (BMS Room, Haus 1, ground floor), Rudower Chaussee 25, Adlershof, 12489 Berlin
Organiser: Gaëtan Borot
Sommersemester 2025
22. April 2025
Vincent Bouchard (University of Alberta)
29. April 2025
Thomas Creutzig (Erlangen Universität)
Verlinde's formula in logarithmic conformal field theory
Verlinde's formula for rational two-dimensional conformal field theory says that the fusion rules can be computed from the modular transformations of characters. Thanks to Yi-Zhi Huang this is a theorem for rational vertex operator algebras. I will give a historical introduction to the subject and then introduce a setting in which this statement also holds for logarithmic conformal field theories.
6. Mai 2025 - No seminar
SPECIAL DATE: Monday 12. Mai 2025, 2-3.30pm
Leonid Chekhov (Michigan State University)
Symplectic groupoid and cluster algebras
The symplectic groupoid is a set of pairs (B,A) with A unipotent upper-triangular matrices and B in GLn being such that the matrix A~ = BABT is itself unipotent upper triangular. It turned out recently that the problem of description of such pairs can be explicitly solved in terms of Fock--Goncharov--Shen cluster variables; moreover, for B satisfying the standard semiclassical Lie--Poisson algebra, the matrices B, A, and A~ satisfy the closed Poisson algebra relations expressible in the r-matrix form. Since works of J.Nelson, T.Regge and B.Dubrovin, it was known that entries of A can be identified with geodesic functions on Riemann surfaces with holes. In our approach, we are able to construct a complete set of geodesic functions for a closed Riemann surface. We have a complete description for genus two; I'm also about to discuss moduli spaces of higher genera. Based on my joint papers with MIsha Shapiro and our students.
TRI-seminar 16. Mai 2025
followed by the PhD defense of Giacomo Umer at 3pm.
9-10am
Paolo Rossi (Padova) - Moduli spaces of curves and the classification of integrable systems
I will present several results and conjectures on the classification of different classes of integrable systems of evolutionary PDEs, up to the appropriate transformation groups. These include Hamiltonian systems, tau symmetric systems and systems of conservation laws. I will then explain in what sense we expect that integrable systems arising from intersection theory on the moduli space of stable curves are universal objects with respect to these classifications. In the rank one case I will present strong evidence in support of these claims. This is joint work with A. Buryak.
10-11am
Danilo Lewanski (Trieste) - On the DR/DZ equivalence
There are two main recipes to associate to a Cohomological Field Theory (CohFT) an integrable hierarchy of hamiltonian PDEs: the first one was introduced by Dubrovin and Zhang (DZ, 2001), the second by Buryak (DR, 2015). It is interesting to notice that the latter relies on the geometric properties of the Double Ramification cycle — hence the name DR — to work. As soon as the second recipe was introduced, it was conjectured that the two had to be equivalent in some sense, and it was checked in a few examples. In the forthcoming years several papers by Buryak, Dubrovin, Guerè, Rossi and others followed, checking more examples of CohFTs, making the conjecture more precise, proving the conjecture in low genera, and eventually turning the statement of the conjecture in a purely intersection theoretic statement on the moduli spaces of stable curves. Lately, the conjecture was proved in its intersection theoretic form, employing virtual localisation techniques. (j.w.w. Blot, Rossi, Shadrin).
11.30am-12.30pm
Reinier Kramer (Milano Bicocca) - Leaky Hurwitz numbers and topological recursion
Leaky Hurwitz numbers were introduced by Cavalieri-Markwig-Ranganathan by extending the branching morphism from the logarithmic double ramification cycle to its pluricanonical counterpart. These numbers also have a natural interpretation in terms of tropical geometry and yield (non-hypergeometric) KP tau functions.
I will explain how to think about these numbers, and how we can extend the recent works of Alexandrov-Bychkov-Dunin-Barkowski-Kazarian-Shadrin to prove (at least blobbed) topological recursion. Along the way, I will interpret the cut-and-join operator as a hamiltonian whose flow generates the spectral curve. This is joint work in progress with M. A. Hahn.
SPECIAL DATE: Monday 19. Mai 2025, 1.45-2.45pm
Silvia Ragni (Università di Padova)
Teleman’s reconstruction theorem: adaptation for semi-simple F-CohFTs
27. Mai 2025
Jan Pulmann (Charles University)
Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, half-densities and Lagrangian relations
Lagrangian relations model maps and more general correspondences between physical systems. In Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, it is natural to generalize Lagrangian relations to distributional half-densities, as advocated by Ševera. We give a rigorous definition of linear distributional half-densities and describe their composition, thus constructing a linear version of a quantum odd symplectic category. As an application, we describe the computation of the BV effective action as a composition in this category. Based on [arXiv:2401.06110], joint with B. Jurčo and M. Zika.
3. Juni 2025
Davide Scazzuso (HU Berlin)
Remodelling the Gauged Linear Sigma Model
Abstract: TBA
10. Juni 2025
TBA
24. Juni 2025
Niklas Martensen (HU Berlin)
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
1. Juli 2025
Gerard Bargalló i Gómez (HU Berlin)
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
8. Juli 2025
TBA
15. Juli 2025
Rob Klabbers (HU Berlin)
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA