Special Lectures in Real & Complex Geometry

Thursday, 29.1.2009, 12:00-13:00, place: Schreiber 210

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Lev Lerman, The University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

On some problems of symplectic topology arising in Hamiltonian dynamics


Abstract
             

The Hamiltonian dynamics is a rich source of problems in symplectic topology. In fact, the symplectic topology itself has appeared as the geometrization of several problems having arisen in the Hamiltonian dynamics. I intend to discuss two problems which I faced with during my
work under the problems in Hamiltonian dynamics, both integrable and nonintegrable. These are interrelations between the topology of the
ambient manifold and the topology of the degeneracy set for an integrable Hamiltonian system and counting of self-intersection points for tori in the scattering problems arising in homoclinic dynamics.