On a remarkable example of F. Almgren and H. Federer in global calculus of variations

Series
Dynamical Systems Working Seminar
Time
Friday, April 20, 2018 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 271
Speaker
Prof. Rafael de la Llave – GT Math
Organizer
Jiaqi Yang
A well known paper of H. Federer on Flat chains contains a remarkable example attributed to F. Almgren. We intend to give a geometric exposition of the example and explain its relevance in the global theory of geodesic flows and some global problems such as homogenization in quasi-periodic media. This is part of an expository paper with X. Su.