PhD students

It is well known about the Riemann zeta function that $\zeta(2i) \in \mathbb{Q}\pi^{2i}, i\geqslant 1$, and thus all these numbers are linearly independent over $\mathbb{Q}$, since $\pi$ is transcendental.
However, very little is known about the numbers $\zeta(2i+1), i\geqslant 1$. It was proved in 1978 that $\zeta(3)$ is irrational, and in 2000 that infinitely many of these numbers are irationnal.

The aim of this talk is to introduce the core ideas used to prove such a result, and to elaborate on the new ideas that allowed many generalizations since the 2000s (better bound on the proportion of irrational numbers, broader class of functions rather than just $\zeta$, …)

The Wasserstein space $\mathscr{P}(M)$ associated with a closed Riemannian manifold is defined as the space of probability measures on the manifold, endowed with the so-called Otto metric, which provides it with the structure of a formal infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold. In this talk I will describe the geometric features of this space, emphasizing its connections with optimal transport theory and some classical PDEs. I will then introduce the group of diffeomorphisms $\mathscr{D}(M)$, viewed as an Inverse Limit Hilbert Lie group, and present the Riemannian submersion structure that relates $\mathscr{D}(M)$ and $\mathscr{P}(M)$. The space $\mathscr{P}_\infty(M) \subset \mathscr{P}(M)$ of smooth positive measures is of particular interest. The geodesic convexity of such a space highly depends on the geometry of the base manifold. I will review some significant developments on this topic, mainly due to Ma, Trudinger, Wang, Loeper and Villani. If time permits, I will try to introduce some of the topics of my PhD thesis which focuses on the study of random paths on $\mathscr{P}(M)$ and its tangent bundle $T\mathscr{P}(M)$.

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