We study the large-time $\ell^p$ behavior of transition densities of an isotropic random walk in homogeneous trees, which are infinite, connected, acyclic graphs in which every vertex has the same degree, and can be thought as discrete counterparts of hyperbolic space. Caloric functions of interest are then convolutions of these transition densities with a finitely supported initial condition, and we are interested in their large time behavior in $\ell^p$ norm.

For each $p \in [1, \infty]$, we introduce a notion of a $p$-mass function and prove that caloric functions with compactly supported initial data, asymptotically decouple as the product of this mass function the transition density. Using tools of Fourier analysis available on such graphs, we show that this function even boils down to a constant, still depending on $p$, if the initial condition is radial, that is, depends only on the distance to the origin. Determining the spatial concentration of the densities in $p$-norm plays an important role, in turn clarifying the interplay between the exponential volume growth of the graph and heat diffusion. The results extend to affine buildings, even exotic ones beyond the Bruhat–Tits framework.

Joint work with B. Trojan.

En mécanique quantique, le principe d’incertitude d’Heisenberg stipule qu’on ne peut connaître simultanément avec précision la position et la vitesse d’une particule. Cette célèbre inégalité relie en réalité une fonction et sa transformée de Fourier.
En 1989, motivés par des applications en traitement du signal, Donoho et Stark donnent un nouveau principe d’incertitude, non plus pour des fonctions définies sur $\mathbb{R}$ mais sur un groupe abélien fini. Ce dernier a ensuite été significativement amélioré : en 2006, Tao prouve ce qu’on appelle un principe d’incertitude fort pour des fonctions définies sur $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$, où $p$ est premier. Plus récemment, en 2021, Garcia, Karaali et Katz généralisent ce principe aux corps finis, pour des fonctions vérifiant une certaine condition de symétrie qu’on détaillera.
Dans cet exposé, on présentera une généralisation du principe d’incertitude fort pour des groupes abéliens finis quelconques. Nous verrons à quel point ce dernier est restrictif, et nous décrirons les cas pour lesquels il est vérifié. Enfin, nous terminerons avec une application en combinatoire additive, plus précisément un théorème de type Cauchy-Davenport sur les corps finis.
Cet exposé est issu d’un travail en collaboration avec Angelot Behajaina.

The discrepancy of a distribution of $N$ points in the torus $T^d$ with respect to a given family of test sets measures how far the points are from being uniformly distributed over that family. When the family consists of all translates of a fixed set, one can consider the $L^2$-average of the discrepancy over translations and use Fourier analytical methods to understand its size. Sharp lower bounds for such $L^2$ discrepancy in terms of $N$ are known for wide classes of sets in $T^2$, but much less is known in higher dimensions. In this talk, I will report on recent progress in this direction, focusing on a family of test
sets with “cylindrical” symmetry that can be defined in any dimension. In three dimensions, these sets have the shape of a barrel. They are particularly
interesting because they exhibit geometric features known to play a key role in discrepancy theory: flat regions, curved regions, and corners. Joint work with
Luca Brandolini and Alessandro Monguzzi.

En 1999, Wen Chao Lu a donné une démonstration par l’analyse réelle du théorème des nombres premiers avec terme d’erreur, “à epsilon près” celui obtenu un siècle auparavant par La Vallée Poussin au moyen de l’analyse complexe. En 2024, Gozé a, dans sa thèse, donné une version quantitative de ce résultat.

Dans un travail en cours avec Gozé et Bruno Martin, nous reprenons les démonstrations de Lu et Gozé, et tentons d’en dégager les idées essentielles. L’exposé présentera sous une forme simple certaines d’entre elles.

I will survey what is known about the distribution of the orders of integers mod $p$, as $p$ varies. Particular attention will be paid to problems of the following sort: For fixed $a$ and $b$, how do the order of $a$ mod $p$ and the order of $b$ mod $p$ compare, as $p$ varies? The proofs will draw from the elementary, algebraic, and analytic strands of number theory. (So hopefully something for everyone!)

Après avoir introduit le groupe des transformations birationnelles du plan projectif complexe, j’en donnerai quelques propriétés en faisant un parallèle avec les groupes linéaires.

On a surface M with strict negative curvature given two closed curves $c_1,c_2$, the Poincaré series is a complex function counting orthogeodesic arcs joining the two curves, in the same way the Riemann zeta function counts the primes. I will first discuss the meromorphic continuation of the Poincaré series and when the curves are homologically trivial, I will explain why the value at 0 is a well–defined rational number which can be interpreted as linking of Legendrian knots. A corollary of our result is that for any pair of points (x,y) in M x M, the lenghts of the geodesics joining the two points determine the genus of M.

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13:45 – 14:40: Alessandra IOZZI (ETH Zürich)

 The real spectrum compactification of character varieties: characterizations and applications

We describe properties of a compactification of general character varieties with good topological properties and give various interpretations of its ideal points. We relate this to the Thurston-Parreau compactification and apply our
results to the theory of maximal representations.

This is a joint work with Marc Burger, Anne Parreau and Maria Beatrice Pozzetti.

15:00 – 15:55: Raphaël BEUZART-PLESSIS (Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS)

Multipliers and isolation of the cuspidal spectrum by convolution operators

Let $G$ be a real reductive algebraic group and $\Gamma$; be an arithmetic lattice of $G$.
In this talk, I will explain how to generalize a construction of Lindenstrauss-Venkatesh giving rise to certain operators on $L^2(\Gamma\backslash G)$ with image in the cuspidal subspace. These operators can be written, in the adelic setting, as combinations of convolution operators at Archimedean places and $p$-adic places (Hecke operators). A crucial ingredient of the proof is the existence of sufficiently many multipliers of $G$ acting on the space of smooth functions with rapid decay (but not necessarily $K$-finite).
Time permitting, I will also describe one application of this construction to the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture for unitary groups.
This talk is based on joint work with Yifeng Liu, Wei Zhang and Xinwen Zhu.

16:15 – 17:10: Erik VAN DEN BAN (University of Utrecht)

The Harish-Chandra transform for Whittaker functions

 I will discuss the role of the descent transform in Harish-Chandra’s approach to the Plancherel formula for Whittaker functions, presented in the posthumous volume 5 of his collected works (Springer 2018). At an earlier occasion I explained how the proof of the Plancherel theorem can be completed by using a Paley-Wiener shift technique. In the present talk I will explain how the proof can be completed in a more straightforward way, by using a suitable result on wave packets of Whittaker functions.

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We consider a Dirac system confined to a bounded domain in the plane. This amounts to a family of boundary conditions. There are two extreme cases, zig-zig and Infinite-mass boundary conditions. Consider a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. I will present results on accurate asymptotics of the energy spectrum of the underlying Hamiltonian in the strong magnetic field limit. We will compare the results for different boundary conditions.

(This is based on joint collaboration with Jean-Marie Barbaroux, Loic Le Treust and Nicolas Raymond)

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We first describe an efficient algorithm to compute
$L’/L(1,\chi)$, where $\chi$ is a non-principal Dirichlet character
mod q, and q is an odd prime. We then discuss
some results on the distribution of
$m_q := \min_{\chi\ne \chi_0} \vert L’/L(1,\chi) \vert $
and about the Euler-Kronecker constants for cyclotomic fields.

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