Complexity of Lagrangian submanifolds

Speaker: Octav Cornea

Date: Thu, Apr 17, 2025

Location: PIMS, University of Regina, Online

Conference: University of Regina PIMS Distinguished Lecture

Subject: Mathematics

Class: Scientific

Abstract:

Lagrangian submanifolds are a central object of study in symplectic topology. Their rigidity properties have been uncovered via Floer theory since the early ’90’s. The talk will briefly review the subject, in particular how triangulated category structures naturally arise in this context through work of Donaldson, Kontsevich, Fukaya, and others. Further, will be discussed the more recent, natural role of persistence theory, in the sense common in data science. Finally, we will outline how complexity measurements based on persistence methods reflect topological and dynamical invariants, such as topological entropy.