Dans son article `On a theorem of Jordan’, Serre considère la famille de polynômes $f_n(X) = X^n-X-1$ et la fonction qui compte le nombre de racines de $f_n$ dans le corps fini $F_p$ en tant que fonction de $p$. Il montre explicitement la ‘modularité’ de cette fonction pour $n=3,4$. Dans cet exposé, je parlerai d’un article en commun avec Alfio Fabio La Rosa et Chandrashekhar Khare dans lequel nous traitons le cas $n=5$ de plusieurs manières.

Je proposerai une excursion aux « Fondements mathématiques » (dans le sens de l’intitulé d’une unité de notre L1 que j’étais amené à enseigner à Nancy pendant ces dernières années) : depuis le 19e siècle, la théorie des fondements des nombres et de l’analyse réels, et celle de la théorie des ensembles, se sont nourries mutuellement (Dedekind, Cantor,…). Au 20e siècle, cette interaction a pris un nouveau tournant : du coté théorie des ensembles, l’univers de von Neumann permet de sortir indemne de la « crise des fondements » ; du coté de la théorie des nombres, John Horton Conway proposa, dans son livre « On Numbers and Games » (connu sous le sigle ONAG), une nouvelle approche qui permet de voir les nombres réels dans un cadre beaucoup plus vaste de « tous les nombres » (« All Numbers Great and Small »). Le terme « nombres surréels », crée par Donald Knuth dans son livre Surreal numbers – how two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness (qui est paru même avant ONAG), est un peu malheureux car il suggère une analogie avec le courant d’art de même nom, ce qui est trompeur. Dans cet exposé, je tenterai de vous expliquer que ces nombres sont aussi réels que tout objet mathématique vivant dans l’univers mathématique, et pour lequel l’univers de von Neumann fournit un modèle. Il s’agit d’un travail en cours, loin d’être terminé.

(Joint Work with Michele Serra.)

In his paper  » Automorphisms of fields of formal power series » (Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 50, 1944) Otto Schilling described the automorphism group of k((t)), the field of Laurent series with coefficients in a ground field k and exponents in the group of integers. In our paper « The automorphism group of a valued field of generalised formal power series » (J. Algebra 605, 2022) we generalise his results to the case when the exponents lie in an arbitrary abelian group. In particular, our results apply to a variety of such fields, e.g. to the field of Puiseux series, of multivariate rational functions, of multivariate Laurent series, or to the field of surreal numbers.
The talk will be self contained talk and geared towards a general audience.

Let $M$ be a manifold with a geometric structure and sufficiently nice $G$ a symmetry group, often the geometric structure can be transferred to $M/G$. In (multi-)symplectic geometry, reduction procedures permit to transfer the differential form to an even smaller space. However, all approaches working directly on the space have very strong regularity requirements.
We present an approach to reducing the algebra of (multi-)symplectic observables for general (covariant) moment maps, without any regularity assumptions of the level sets (and the symmetries).
Based on joint work with Casey Blacker and Antonio Miti.

Les journées SL2R « Théorie des Représentations et Analyse Harmonique » se tiendront à l’Université du Lorraine les jeudi 12 et vendredi 13 Mai 2020. Ce colloque tournant — entre les universités de Strasbourg, Lorraine, Luxembourg et Reims (=SL2R) — regroupe deux à trois fois par an les mathématiciens de ces quatre universités travaillant en théorie des représentations et en analyse harmonique.

Cette édition sera en l’honneur du Professeur Jacques Faraut, l’un des fondateurs du précurseur des journées SL2R : le séminaire Nancy-Strasbourg (organisé par P. Eymard – R. Takahashi de Nancy et J. Faraut – G. Schiffmann de Strasbourg).

Pour participer, merci de remplir le formulaire form et de l’envoyer à khalid.koufany@univ-lorraine.fr et wolfgang.bertram@univ-lorraine.fr

Le programme, les participants et toutes les informations pratiques sont à retrouver sur le site web de l’événement : http://khalid-koufany.perso.math.cnrs.fr/SL2R2022/index.html

Given an arithmetic function $\theta$, we consider the set
$$ \mathcal{B}_\theta = \Bigl\{n\ge 1: p|n \Rightarrow p\le \theta\Bigl(\prod_{q<p \atop q^\alpha || n} q^\alpha \Bigr) \Bigr\},$$
where $p$ and $q$ denote primes. Depending on the choice of $\theta$, the possible sets $\mathcal{B}_\theta$ include the set of prime powers, almost primes, friable numbers, dense numbers, and practical numbers.
We will discuss (1) asymptotic results for the counting function of $\mathcal{B}_\theta$, (2) a generalization of the Siegel-Walfisz theorem, and (3) the normal order of the number of prime factors of integers in $\mathcal{B}_\theta$.

Let G be a non-compact connected semisimple real Lie group with finite center. Suppose L is a non-compact connected closed subgroup of G acting transitively on a symmetric space G/H such that L\cap H is compact. We will describe the action on L/L\cap H of a Dirac operator D_{G/H}(E) acting on sections of an E-twist of the spin bundle over G/H. We will illustrate the results in an SL(2) example.  This is joint work with Salah Mehdi.

The quantum gauge theory is the current basis for explaining the interactions of elementary particles. Among the four fundamental interactions: electromagnetic, weak, strong, and gravitational, for the last two, a proper mathematical construction does not yet exist. Quantum gauge theory is based on three different branches of mathematics: 1) geometry, 2) group theory, and 3) functional analysis.

The strong interactions are studied in the SU(3) quantum Yang-Mills theory but an axiomatic QFT with the mass gap and color confinement does not yet exist. In the classical field theory model, the gluon^1 is a massless particle but one can not see the color-charge^2 of a particle in nature, and then the gluons must be in the bound states, forming massive particles. This is the mass gap problem. The mass gap is the difference in energy between the vacuum and the next lowest energy state. The energy of the vacuum is zero by definition, and the mass gap is the mass of the lightest particle. However, the color confinement postulated permits only bound states of gluons, it is an obvious contradiction.

In this presentation, I would like to discuss the fact that if we replace: 1)  Minkowskian geometry with the de Sitterian geometry, 2) Poincaré group with de Sitter group and 3) Hilbert space quantization with the Krein space quantization, an axiomatic quantum Yang-Mills theory with a mass gap and the color confinement can be constructed. It is important to note that the ambient space formalism allows us to make this construction possible.

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1 . A gluon is an elementary particle that acts as the exchange particle (or gauge boson) for the strong force between quarks.

2 . Color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles’ strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics

Considering partial character sums as defining a family of random processes (by choosing the characters randomly from some set), it becomes natural to ask questions about the limiting distribution. I’ll describe this in some contexts and give examples of what we can find in the support. This is largely work of Ayesha Hussain, but also some joint work.

If we have a flat vector bundle E over a compact manifold M, then we can form the de Rham cohomology H(M; E) of the M twisted by E. Given a Riemannian metric on M, this cohomology can be realised as the kernel of a Laplacian, via the Hodge theorem. Using the same Laplacian, In 1971, Ray and Singer defined the analytic torsion of M (now also assumed oriented), twisted by E. If H(M; E) vanishes, then analytic torsion is independent of the Riemannian metric used to define the Laplacian, and therefore a smooth invariant. Ray and Singer’s motivation for this definition was to give an analytic way to realise Reidemeister-Franz torsion, a combinatorial invariant of finite cell complexes. In 1978, Cheeger and Müller proved independently that these two notions of torsion are indeed equal. Fried’s conjecture from 1986 is a relation between analytic torsion and the Ruelle dynamical zeta function of a flow on M with suitable properties. That is a quantity involving the lengths of closed flow curves. So analytic torsion gives us a link between analysis, topology and dynamical systems. Most of this talk is a survey of analytic torsion. I will also mention some recent work with Hemanth Saratchandran on an equivariant version of analytic torsion for proper group actions.

Soit P un polynôme à coefficients entiers, unitaire, irréductible, de degré 4 et de groupe de Galois diédral ou cyclique.
Il existe c = c(P) > 0, tel que P(n) ait un facteur premier supérieur à n^1+c pour une proportion positive d’entiers n.

Il s’agit d’un travail  avec James Maynard.

Let I and J be two orthogonal respectively left and right coideal $*$-subalgebras of a dual pair of Hopf $*$-algebras. We define the Drinfeld double coideal of J and I. Next, we define for $0<q<1$ the unital $*$-algebra $U_q(sl(2,R))$, quantizing the universal enveloping $*$-algebra of $sl(2, R)$, as the Drinfeld double of the equatorial Podles sphere coideal $*$-subalgebra of $O_q(SU(2))$ and its associated orthogonal coideal $*$-subalgebra of $U_q(su(2))$. We finally classify its admissible irreducible $*$-representations.