FACULTAD DE MATEMÁTICAS

 

Seminar on Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory

(former Spectral and Scattering Theory Seminar)

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Campus San Joaquín 
Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Facultad de Matemáticas, Sala 2
Thursday, 17:00 - 18:30 
 
Contact: bourget(at)mat.puc.cl; mcourdurier(at)mat.puc.cl, amontero(at)mat.puc.cl; graikov(at)mat.puc.cl 
November 24, 2011: Positive Quantization in the Presence of a Variable Magnetic Field
Serge Richard, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Abstract:

During this seminar, we shall first recall some known results on the magnetic Weyl calculus. Then, based on a family 
of magnetic coherent states, we shall introduce a Berezin quantization for a particle in a variable magnetic field and 
we show that it constitutes a strict quantization of a natural Poisson algebra.  
 
November 17, 2011: Comportamiento local y global de las soluciones de la ecuación de Hamilton-Jacobi con operador de difusión no lineal
Amal Attouchi, Universidad de Paris 13, Francia
 
 
October 27, 2011: Fórmula de traza para el operador de Landau perturbado 
Georgi Raikov, Facultad de Matemáticas, PUC 
Resumen:
Se presentará una fórmula de traza para los cúmulos de valores propios del operador de Landau, es decir 
el operador bidimensional de Schrödinger con campo magnético constante, perturbado por un potencial 
eléctrico que decae al infinito. El espectro de este operador consiste en cúmulos de valores propios discretos 
que se acumulan en los niveles de Landau. Se estudiará la densidad asintótica de los valores propios 
dentro de estos cúmulos cuando el número del cúmulo tiende hacia el infinito. Esta densidad asintótica 
será descrita explícitamente en términos de la transformada de Radon del potencial perturbativo. Las 
herramientas usadas en las demostraciones son métodos relativos a la teoría de operadores de Berezin-Toeplitz 
y operadores pseudodiferenciales con símbolos contravariantes. Se trata de trabajo conjunto con Alexander 
Pushnitski (King's College, Londres, Reino Unido) y Carlos Villegas-Blas (UNAM, Cuernavaca, México).
Preprint
 
 
October 6, 2011: La energía de Ginzburg Landau de una función bien localizada
Alberto Montero, Facultad de Matemáticas, PUC
Resumen:
En esta charla voy a hablar de la energía de Ginzburg-Landau de una función definida en un dominio suave en R3, 
a valores complejos, cuyos conjuntos de nivel están cerca en promedio de una curva dada.
 
 
September 15, 2011: Discrete spectrum asymptotics for certain finite band lattice operators 
Alexander Sobolev, University College, London, UK

Abstract:

Discrete spectrum asymptotics have been extensively studied for classical Jacobi matrices with the dominating growing diagonal part. 
We obtain analogous asymptotic formulas for multidimensional finite band lattice operators.
The central idea of the method goes back to the Near Diagonalization Approach by G. Rozenblum, but the multi-dimensional nature 
of the problem leads to the occurrence of “resonant zones” in the lattice, which make the asymptotic properties of these operators more 
involved than in the one-dimensional case. The accurate description of the resonant zones is the main technical difficulty of this work.
 
 
September 1, 2011: Two-Hilbert spaces Mourre theory for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on manifolds 
with asymptotically cylindrical ends
Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa, Facultad de Matemáticas, PUC

Abstract:

We review some aspects of Mourre theory in a two-Hilbert spaces setting. Then we apply this theory to the spectral analysis 
for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on manifolds with asymptotically cylindrical ends. 
This is a joint work with Serge Richard (University of Tsukuba).
 
 
July 28, 2011: Normal Form for some time-independent magnetic Hamiltonians 

Cedric Meresse, CPT Marseille, France

Abstract:

In this talk, we will discuss the existence of a normal form for some time independent quantum magnetic systems. First, we look at systems which 
have quadratic perturbations. Then, we will focus our interest on more general systems using a partial diagonalization algorithm.
 
 
May 26, 2011: El Ansatz de Bethe en una alcoba de Weyl
Erdal Emsiz, Facultad de Matemáticas, PUC

 

Resumen:

En esta charla voy a hablar sobre sistemas de raíces (de las álgebras de Lie semi-simples complejas)  versiones de partículas cuánticas en una dimensión en el círculo con potencial de delta repulsivo. Una parte importante de esta charla se dedicará al describir  cómo resolver  el problema espectral con el Ansatz de Bethe. Además, las funciones propias de Bethe son completas, en el sentido de que su span  lineal es denso en el espacio de Hilbert de las funciones cuadráticas en una alcoba de Weyl. También hablaré sobre una fórmula (conjetural) determinante  compacta para las normas cuadráticas  de las funciones propias de Bethe. Si hay tiempo también hablaré sobre la relación con álgebras de Hecke afines de dichos sistemas.

 
 
May 19, 2011: Effective Hamiltonian for a hydrogen-like atom in a thin layer
Matej Tusek, Facultad de Física, PUC

Abstract:

A hydrogen atom localized in a plane-parallel slab of the width $a$ is considered.

The energy spectrum of such atom is investigated as the width of the slab tends to zero.

It turns out that it is well approximated by the spectrum of a two-dimensional Hamiltonian which we call the effective Hamiltonian.

The norm resolvent limit of the effective Hamiltonian as $a\to 0$ is nothing but the Hamiltonian of the two-dimensional hydrogen atom plus the energy of the lowest transverse mode. Consequently, one may use the explicit knowledge of the eigenvalues of the latter Hamiltonian to approximate the eigenvalues of the exact one.

 
 
May 12, 2011: Heat kernels of two-dimensional magnetic Schroedinger and Pauli operators

Hynek Kovarik, Politecnico di Torino, Italia

Abstract:

We study the heat semi-groups generated by two-dimensional magnetic Schroedinger and Pauli operators with compactly supported magnetic field. We show that, although the spectra of these operators coincide, the respective heat kernels have different large time behavior. It turns out that the magnetic field speeds up the time decay of the Schroedinger heat kernel and slows down the decay of the Pauli heat kernel. The decay rate is in both cases determined by the total flux of the magnetic field.

 

 

April 7, 2011: Cotas para la energía de intercambio en física atómica

Rafael Benguria, PUC

Abstract:

En esta charla voy a mostrar una nueva  estimación para la energía de intercambio en Física Atómica en térmnos de un funcional que depende de la densidad de electrones. En la Teoría de Funcionales de Densidad que se emplea a menudo en Química Teórica, se trata de expresar los distintos términos de la energía de un sistema de N electrones, (los que en principio están modelados por la función de onda, solución de una ecuación de Schrödinger del sistema) por un funcional de la densidad de electrones. Lo que haré es derivar algunas nuevas desigualdades funcionales, para lograr cotas rigurosas para la energía de intercambio.  Este es un trabajo conjunto con Gonzalo Bley (PUC, Santiago) y Michael Loss (Georgia Tech, Atlanta).

 

 
January 13, 2011: Remarks on effective dynamics in Quantum Hall systems and the Chalker Coddington model
Joachim Asch, CPT Marseille, France

 

Abstract:

We consider the quantum dynamics of a single particle in the plane under the influence of a constant perpendicular magnetic and a crossed electric potential field. For a class of smooth and small potentials we prove that the Hamiltonian is unitarily equivalent to an effective Hamiltonian which commutes with the observable of kinetic energy. Further we discuss the derived quantum network percolation model suggested by Chalker and Coddington. For the restriction to a cylinder of perimeter 2M we prove simplicity of the Lyapunov exponents, finiteness of the  localization length  and compute the mean Lyapunov exponent by a Thouless formula.

 
 
January 6, 2011: Characteristic values for a class of meromorphic operators
Vincent Bruneau, Université Bordeaux I, France

 

Abstract:

Our problem (motivated by the study of resonances for some magnetic Schrödinger operators) is to study the counting function of the characteristic values for a class of meromorphic Fredohlm operators A(z). We are particularly interested by some accumulation phenomena near the singularities of A (for the study of resonances of the magnetic Schrodinger operator these singularities are the Landau levels). We will give a framework where the distribution of the characteristic values is related to the counting function of the eigenvalues of the main contribution of A.

 
 
December 9, 2010: Universally Typical Sets for Ergodic Sources of Multidimensional Data
Ruedi Seiler, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

 

Abstract:

Results about typical sets are lifted from the one-dimensional to the multidimensional setting. This is a step towards a multidimensional Lempel-Ziv Compression algorithm.

 
 
November 11, 2010: On resonance and the Landerman-Lazer condition for some Fully Nonlinear Elliptic equations 
Alexander Quaas, Universidad Téctinca Federico Santa María 

Abstract 

 

 

October 28, 2010: Large Solutions of Some Elliptic Systems of Second Order

Marta García-Huidobro, PUC 

Abstract

We study the nonnegative solutions of the elliptic system \[\Delta u=|x|^{a}v^{\delta},\qquad\Delta v=|x|^{b}u^{\mu}%\]  in the superlinear case $\mu\delta>1,$ which blow up near the boundary of a ball.  In the radial case we give the exact behavior of the large solutions near the boundary.

 

 
October 21, 2010: The system of elastic waves with time-dependent damping coefficient in unbounded domains 

Ruy Coimbra, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Abstract

 

 
October 4, 2010 (Monday): The Relativistic Scott Correction

Heinz Siedentop, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

 
 
September 30, 2010: Spectral properties of random Schroedinger operators with general interactions
Ivan Veselic, Chemnitz Technical University, Germany

 

Abstract

We discuss spectral properties of random Schroedinger operators, in particular those related to the phenomenon of Anderson localisation.

After introducing the most studied model, namely the alloy or Anderson type potential, we consider several other types of random operators with more general interactions. There are several properties those models may exhibit or not: monotone and/or linear dependence on the random parameters, long range correlations, randomness entering only a multiplication operator etc.

We discuss the relevance of these properties when deriving certain intermediate spectral estimates, and explain new insights which are gained about the physical mechanism leading to localisation.

 
 
September 9, 2010: Ground states para una ecuación elíptica semilineal con crecimiento mixto subcrítico y supercrítico

Ignacio Guerra, Departamento de Matemática y CC, USACH

Abstract

Consideraremos el problema $\Delta u + u^p+\lambda u^q  -u = 0$, $u>0$, en $\mathbb{R}^N$, donde $\lambda>0$, $N\geq 3$ y $1<q\leq  p$. Haremos una descripción numérica de las soluciones para el caso $q$ subcrítico y $p$ supercrítico. Además probaremos existencia cuando $q$ es subcrítico y $p$ es supercritico cercano al exponente crítico. Discutiremos también la multiplicidad, unicidad y no existencia de soluciones para este problema.

 
 
September 2, 2010: Sojourn Time for Time-Dependent Hamiltonians

Claudio Fernández, PUC

Abstract

 

 
August 26, 2010: Expanding solitons with non-negative curvature operator coming out of cones.

Felix Schulze, Free University Berlin, Germany

 

Abstract

We show that a Ricci flow of any complete Riemannian manifold without boundary with bounded non-negative curvature operator and non-zero asymptotic volume ratio exists for all time and has constant asymptotic volume ratio. We show that there is a limit solution, obtained by scaling down this solution at a fixed point in space, which is an expanding soliton coming out of the asymptotic cone at infinity.

 

 

August 19, 2010: Curvas invariantes y cociclos de isometrías en un espacio de Hilbert sobre dinámicas minimales.

Alvaro Daniel Coronel, PUC

 

Abstract

Esta charla trata sobre cociclos de isometrías en un espacio de Hilbert sobre dinámicas minimales y las dinámicas fibradas que ellos generan. Veremos que una condición necesaria para la existencia de una curva invariante en estas dinámicas fibradas es que el cociclo sea acotado. En dimensión finita mostraremos que esta condición es suficiente, lo que da una version general de un teorema de Gottschalk y Hedlund. Daremos algunos ejemplos en dimensión infinita donde la condición de cociclo acotado implica la existencia de una curva debilmente continua. Finalmente mostraremos que toda curva debilmente continua es fuertemente continua.

Este es un trabajo conjunto con Andrés Navas y Mario Ponce.

 

 

August 12, 2010: A limiting free boundary problem ruled by Aronsson's equation

Julio Rossi, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Abstract

We study the behavior of $p$-Dirichlet optimal design problem with volume constraint for $p$ large. As the limit as $p$ goes to infinity, we find a limiting free boundary problem governed by the infinity-Laplacian operator. We find a necessary and sufficient condition for uniqueness of the limiting problem and, under such a condition, we determine precisely the optimal configuration for the limiting problem. Finally, we establish convergence results for the free boundaries.

(joint work with Eduardo V. Teixeira (Brasil))

 

 

August 5, 2010: Soluciones múltiples al problema de Bahri-Coron en un dominio con una perturbación topológicamente no trivial

Mónica Clapp, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Abstract