Mathematics Colloquium

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Local smoothing for the wave equation.

Speaker: Larry Guth, MIT

Location: Online

Videoconference link: https://nyu.zoom.us/rec/share/S2sW6yLEFjwEAvIU0CFOa8HdxDzgWp7DJq4UOzV2jPtuhUvtZcZSZ0L6EZ_xFdKF.IkijlMeor99ZASn4

Date: Monday, February 22, 2021, 3:45 p.m.

Synopsis:

The local smoothing problem asks about how much solutions to the wave equation can focus.  It was formulated by Chris Sogge in the early 90s.  Hong Wang, Ruixiang Zhang, and I recently proved the conjecture in two dimensions.