On the pullback equation for differential forms.

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Bernard Dacorogna – Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Organizer
Andrzej Swiech
An important question in geometry and analysis is to know when two $k$-forms $f$ and $g$ are equivalent. The problem is therefore to find a map $\varphi$ such that $\varphi^*(g) =f$. We will mostly discuss the symplectic case $k=2$ and the case of volume forms$k=n$. We will give some results on the more difficult case where $3\leq k\leq n-2$, the case $k=n-1$ will also be considered.