Periodic subvarieties of a projective variety under the action of a maximal rank abelian group of positive entropy
Fei HU, Sheng-Li TAN, De-Qi ZHANG - 2016-04-19 (M/16/14)

Conservative second-order gravitational self-force on circular orbits and the effective one-body formalism
Donato BINI, Thibault DAMOUR - 2016-04-01 (P/16/13)

Do the Kontsevich tetrahedral flows preserve or destroy the space of Poisson bi-vectors?
Anass BOUISAGHOUANE, Arthemy KISELEV - 2016-03-31 (M/16/12)
We examine two claims from the paper "Formality Conjecture" (Ascona 1996): specifically, that 1) a certain tetrahedral graph flow preserves the class of (real-analytic) Poisson structures, and that 2) another tetrahedral graph flow vanishes at every such Poisson structure. By using twelve Poisson structures with high-order polynomial coefficients as explicit counterexamples, we show that both the above claims are false: neither does the first flow preserve the property of bi-vectors to be Poisson nor does the second flow vanish identically at the Poisson bi-vectors. The counterexamples at hand themselves suggest a correction to the formula for the "exotic" flow on the space of Poisson bi-vectors; in fact, this flow is encoded by the balanced sum involving both the Kontsevich tetrahedral graphs (that give rise to the flows mentioned above). We reveal that it is only the balance (1:6) for which the flow does preserve the space of Poisson bi-vectors.
BADLY APPROXIMABLE VECTORS AND FRACTALS DEFINED BY CONFORMAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
Tushar DAS, Lior FISHMAN, David SIMMONS, Mariusz URBANSKI - 2016-03-22 (M/16/10)
We prove that if J is the limit set of an irreducible conformal iterated function system (with either finite or countably infinite alphabet), then the badly approximable vectors form a set of full Hausdorff dimension in J. The same is true if J is the radial Julia set of an irreducible meromorphic function (either rational or transcendental). The method of proof is to find subsets of J that support absolutely friendly and Ahlfors regular measures of large dimension. In the appendix to this paper, we answer a question of Broderick, Kleinbock, Reich, Weiss, and the second-named author (’12) by showing that every hyperplane diffuse set supports an absolutely decaying measure.
Real Analyticity for random dynamics of transcendental functions
Volker MAYER, Mariusz URBANSKI, Anna ZDUNIK - 2016-03-22 (M/16/11)
Analyticity results of expected pressure and invariant densities in the context of random dynamics of transcendental functions are established. These are obtained by a refinement of work by Rugh \cite{Rug08} leading to a simple approach to analyticity. We work under very mild dynamical assumptions. Just the iterates of the Perron-Frobenius operator are assumed to converge. We also provide a Bowen's formula expressing the almost sure Hausdorff dimension of the radial fiberwise Julia sets in terms of the zero of an expected pressure function. Our main application states real analyticity for the variation of this dimension for suitable hyperbolic random systems of entire or meromorphic functions.
SU(N) transitions in M-theory on Calabi-Yau fourfolds and background fluxes
Hans JOCKERS, Sheldon KATZ, David MORRISON, M. Ronen PLESSER - 2016-03-09 (P/16/07)
We study M-theory on a Calabi-Yau fourfold with a smooth surface S of AN−1 singularities. The resulting three-dimensional theory has a =2 SU(N) gauge theory sector, which we obtain from a twisted dimensional reduction of a seven-dimensional =1 SU(N) gauge theory on the surface S. A variant of the Vafa-Witten equations governs the moduli space of the gauge theory, which, for a trivial SU(N) principal bundle over S, admits a Coulomb and a Higgs branch. In M-theory these two gauge theory branches arise from a resolution and a deformation to smooth Calabi-Yau fourfolds, respectively. We find that the deformed Calabi-Yau fourfold associated to the Higgs branch requires for consistency a non-trivial four-form background flux in M-theory. The flat directions of the flux-induced superpotential are in agreement with the gauge theory prediction for the moduli space of the Higgs branch. We illustrate our findings with explicit examples that realize the Coulomb and Higgs phase transition in Calabi-Yau fourfolds embedded in weighted projective spaces. We generalize and enlarge this class of examples to Calabi-Yau fourfolds embedded in toric varieties with an AN−1 singularity in codimension two.
New gravitational self-force analytical results for eccentric orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole
Donato BINI, Thibault DAMOUR, Andrea GERALICO - 2016-03-09 (P/16/08)

High post-Newtonian order gravitational self-force analytical results for eccentric orbits around a Kerr black hole
Donato BINI, Thibault DAMOUR, Andrea GERALICO - 2016-03-09 (P/16/09)

Intermittency in the Hodgkin-Huxley model
Gaspar CANO, Rui DILAO - 2016-02-26 (M/16/06)
We show that action potentials in the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron model result from a type I intermittency phenomenon that occurs in the proximity of a saddle-node bifurcation of limit cycles. For the Hodgkin-Huxley spatially extended model, describing propagation of action potential along axons, we show the existence of type I intermittency and a new type of chaotic intermittency, as well as space propagating regular and chaotic diffusion waves. Chaotic intermittency occurs in the transition from a turbulent regime to the resting regime of the transmembrane potential and is characterised by the existence of a sequence of action potential spikes occurring at irregular time intervals.
The Langlands-Shahidi method over function fields: the Ramanujan Conjecture and the Riemann Hypothesis for the unitary groups
Luis LOMELI - 2016-02-11 (M/16/05)
On étudie la méthode de Langlands-Shahidi sur les corps de fonctions de caractéristique p. On prouve la fonctorialité de Langlands globale et locale des groupes unitaires vers les groupes linéaires pour les représentations génériques. Supposant connue la conjecture de Shahidi pour les L-paquets modérés, on donne une extension de la définition des fonctions L et des facteurs ε. Enfin, utilisant le travail de L. Lafforgue, on établit la conjecture de Ramanujan et on prouve que les fonctions L automorphes de Langlands-Shahidi satisfont l'hypothèse de Riemann.
Class number problems and Lang conjectures
Ayberk ZEYTIN - 2016-02-01 (M/16/04)
Given a square-free integer d we introduce an affine hypersurface whose integer points are in one-to-one correspondence with ideal classes of the quadratic number field Q(\sqrt{d}). Using this we relate class number problems of Gauss to Lang conjectures.
On Emergent Geometry from Entanglement Entropy in Matrix Theory
Vatche SAHAKIAN - 2016-01-29 (P/16/03)
Using Matrix theory, we compute the entanglement entropy between a supergravity probe and modes on a spherical membrane. We demonstrate that a membrane stretched between the probe and the sphere entangles these modes and leads to an expression for the entanglement entropy that encodes information about local gravitational geometry seen by the probe. We propose in particular that this entanglement entropy measures the rate of convergence of geodesics at the location of the probe.
Perturbative quantum field theory meets number theory
Ivan TODOROV - 2016-01-27 (P/16/02)

On the conservative dynamics of two-body systems at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation of general relativity
Thibault DAMOUR, Piotr JARANOWSKI, Gerhard SCHAEFER - 2016-01-08 (P/16/01)