Keaton Quinn : A PDE on a compact manifold

Posted by Trevor Leslie , part of the Graduate Analysis Seminar.

At

Feb. 22, 2016, 2 p.m.

In

SEO 612

Abstract

We turn a geometric question about curvatures of compact Riemannian 2-manifolds into a existence question for a PDE. We describe how one defines a PDE on a manifolds and how to extend the analytic tools used to study them to this general setting.