Event Series
Event Type
Seminar
Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:30 PM
Boris Khesin (University of Toronto)

We describe pentagram maps on polygons in any dimension, which extend R. Schwartz's definition of those maps in dimension 2.  In many cases these turn out to be discrete integrable systems, while their continuous limits are given by evolving envelopes and solve equations of the Boussinesq and Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) hierarchies from hydrodynamics.