Anàlisi

Caloric capacities of Cantor sets
Joan Hernández (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Dia: 13/11/2025
Hora: 15:00
Lloc: CRM

Resum: The study of removable singularities focuses on characterizing the sets that allow extensions of solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs). In this way, it builds a bridge between this area and the metric–geometric properties of sets that, in some sense, do not pose an obstacle when solving such equations, the so-called removable sets. At this point, capacities play a key role. These functions assign a non-negative value to subsets of the ambient space and satisfy the property that those with zero value are precisely the ones that are removable for the PDE associated with the capacity.
The study of capacities has been extensive in the elliptic setting, and there has recently been growing interest in extending this theory to the parabolic case. In this talk, we will introduce capacities associated with the classical heat equation, as well as with its fractional variants, and we will characterize the capacity of certain Cantor sets. These sets are important in this context because they provide examples of removable sets that are nonetheless maximal in a dimensional sense. We will present recent results we have obtained for parabolic Lipschitz capacities and compare them with classical results.

Models Estocàstics i Deterministes

Mathematical Models for Understanding and Managing Biological Invasions
Ousmane Seydi (Le Havre University Normandy)
Dia: 02/12/2025
Hora: 17:00
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Resum: Invasive species pose major challenges for biodiversity and ecosystem management. In this talk, I will present recent mathematical approaches that help explain how invasions emerge, spread, and can be controlled.
At the early stage of invasion, when populations are small and subject to strong demographic fluctuations, stochastic modeling provides insight into extinction probabilities, invasion thresholds, and spreading speeds. These results offer a foundation for understanding how local conditions and dispersal behavior determine whether an introduced species will persist or vanish.
I will then illustrate how these concepts apply to real ecological systems, focusing on the invasion of the Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) in French forests. An age-structured, spatially explicit model captures how habitat quality and seed dispersal interact to shape invasion patterns and persistence across landscapes.
Finally, I will discuss how mathematical modeling and game-theoretic ideas can inform spatial control strategies, comparing the outcomes of coordinated versus independent management actions.

Diffusion limit for Markovian models of evolution in structured populations with migration
Celia García Pareja (KTH universitetsadjunkt)
Dia: 02/12/2025
Hora: 15:30
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Resum: The evolution of microbial subpopulations that migrate within spatial structures has gained interest in recent years. Questions of relevance include, for instance, the ability of a migrant mutant to take over the population (fixate). Estimating fixation probabilities is, however, usually hindered by the lack of analytical formulas and by computational complexity of simulation-based strategies when considering large populations. In this work, we study several population genetics models where the population is divided into $D$ subpopulations (called demes) consisting of two types of individuals, mutants and wild-types, that evolve through discrete Markovian updates. We prove that under certain assumptions all the considered models converge to the same diffusion approximation, which we call \textit{universal}. This diffusion approximation is amenable to simulation strategies that underly methods of statistical inference while significantly reducing computational costs. In all models, each Markovian update follows two phases: First, a local growth phase in each subpopulation, where the growth of each type of individual depends on its fitness, and then a sampling phase that implements migration between subpopulations. Our proof relies on existing diffusion approximation results for degenerate diffusions, see [1], but requires further technicalities due to fact that sample sizes in each deem are not necessarily fixed but change randomly with each update.
This is joint work with Alia Abbara and Anne-Florence Bitbol at EPF Lausanne.

[1] Ethier, S. N.. "A class of degenerate diffusion processes occurring in population genetics." \emph{Comm. Pure Appl. Math.}, vol.~29, no.~5, 1976, pp.~483--493.

Sistemes Dinàmics

Classification of quadratic differential systems with two invariant conics: parabola and ellipse
Cristina Bujac (State University of Moldova, Moldova)
Dia: 03/11/2025
Hora: 15:00
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari Planta -1 (C1/-128)

Web: Grup de Sistemes Dinàmics de la UAB

Resum: We consider the family QS of quadratic polynomial differential systems. According to Darboux's theory of integrability, the existence of invariant algebraic curves for a polynomial differential system aids in determining a first integral of the system. Systematic studies of quadratic differential systems with invariant conics began toward the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. However, it is only in the past 15 years, with the application of the theory of algebraic invariants for polynomial differential equations (developed by Sibirschi), that some global classifications of systems in QS possessing invariant conics have been established. Each of these classifications addresses a subfamily of QS systems, which each possess either at least one invariant hyperbola, parabola, or ellipse.

In this work, we focus on the class of quadratic systems that possess at least one invariant parabola and at least one invariant ellipse (denoted as QSPE). We provide necessary and sufficient affine invariant conditions for a system to belong to QSPE and classify this family according to the configurations of invariant parabolas, ellipses, and lines that these systems can possess.

Teoria d'Anells

The Cuntz semigroup of rings of continuous functions on one-dimensional spaces
Guillem Quingles (UAB)
Dia: 12/11/2025
Hora: 10:00
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Web: Laboratori d'Interaccions entre Geometria, Àlgebra i Topologia

Resum: A well known theorem of Dolezal and Sibuya states that given a square matrix A(t) that is a continuous function of the scalar parameter $t \in R$ and whose rank is constant as the parameter varies, one can span the range and kernel of A(t) by linearly independent vectors that are also continuous functions on t. In the talk we will explore further generalizations of this result in which the parameter space R is replaced by a one-dimensional topological space. This will allow us to explore the relation between the Cuntz semigroup of C([0, 1]) viewed as a C*-algebra and as a ring, and also for other rings of continuous functions on one-dimensional spaces. I will also characterize the class of a countably generated projective ideal by its trace ideal. We will see that the situation is different when considering real-valued or complex-valued functions.

All of this is work in progress of my Phd under the supervision of Pere Ara and Francesc Perera.

Mesh-comparable components of the AR-quiver
Flávio U. Coelho (University of Sao Paulo)
Dia: 05/11/2025
Hora: 10:00
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Web: Laboratori d'Interaccions entre Geometria, Àlgebra i Topologia

Resum: Given a $k$-algebra $A$ (where $k$ is a field), one way of organizing the category mod$A$ of the finitely generated right $A$-modules is through the so-called Auslander-Reiten quiver $\Gamma$(mod$A)$. The vertices of such quiver correspond to the isoclasses of the indecomposable objects in mod$A$ and the arrows indicate the existence of irreducible morphisms between them. Recall that, for $A$-modules $X,Y$, $\mathrm{rad}_A(X,Y)$ denotes the set of non-isomorphisms $X \rightarrow Y$. Clearly, one can extend it to general modules as follows: $\mathrm{rad}_A(\oplus_{i=1}^n X_i,\oplus_{j=1}^m Y_j) = \oplus_{i=1}^n\oplus_{j=1}^m \mathrm{rad}_A(X_i,Y_j)$. Using the fact that $\mathrm{rad}_A$ is an ideal of the category $\textrm{mod} A$, one can consider its powers, defined recursively by: $\mathrm{rad}_A^0 = \mathrm{Hom}_A, \mathrm{rad}_A^1= \mathrm{rad}_A, \mathrm{rad}_A^n = \mathrm{rad}_A^{n-1} \cdot \mathrm{rad}_A$, where the product $\cdot$ stands for composition of morphisms. We also define $\mathrm{rad}_A^{\infty} = \cap_{n \geq 0} \mathrm{rad}_A^n$. A morphism is called irreducible if it belongs to $\mathrm{rad}_A(X,Y) \setminus \mathrm{rad}_A^2(X,Y)$. Irreducible morphisms are of key importance, since, as shown by Auslander-Reiten theory, these morphisms generate any other morphism modulo $\mathrm{rad}^{\infty}$.

Clearly, a composition of $n$ irreducible morphisms between indecomposable modules belongs to $\mathrm{rad}^n$ and one could wonder if it is also true that, provide it is non-zero, it does not belong to $\mathrm{rad}^{n+1}$. This is not true, not even for $n \geq 2$. Deciding in which cases there might be a non-zero composition of $n$ irreducible morphisms belonging to $\mathrm{rad}^{n+1}$ has become an interesting line of investigation. The purpose of this talk is to define mesh-comparable components using the so-called Riedtmann's functors and show that, in such components, one can choose for each of its arrow an irreducible morphism in such a way that a composite of $n\geq 2$ of them either belongs to rad$_A^{n} \setminus $ rad$_A^{n+1}$ or is zero.
This is part of a joint work with Viktor Chust "Mesh-comparable components of the AR-quiver".

Teoria de Nombres

Automorphism of quotient modular curves
Tarun Dalal (Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Dia: 14/11/2025
Hora: 09:30
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Web: Grup de Geometria Aritmètica

Resum: The automorphism group of a modular curve plays an important role in studying the points on the curve. In this talk, I will briefly discuss the methods for computing the full automorphism groups of modular curves and quotients of modular curves.

Generalized class groups acting on oriented elliptic curves with level structure
Sarah Arpin (Virginia Tech)
Dia: 07/11/2025
Hora: 09:30
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Web: Grup de Geometria Aritmètica

Resum: Certain isogeny-based cryptographic protocols rely on a class group action. We study a large family of generalized class groups of imaginary quadratic orders . We prove that they act freely and (essentially) transitively on the set of primitively O-oriented elliptic curves over a field k equipped with appropriate level structure. This extends, in several ways, a recent observation due to Galbraith, Perrin, and Voloch for the ray class group. We show that this leads to a reinterpretation of the action of the class group of a suborder O’ of O on the set of O’-oriented elliptic curves and discuss several other examples. This is joint work with W. Castryck, J. Komada Eriksen, G. Lorenzon, and F. Vercauteren, with ongoing follow-up work joint with J. Macula and E. Orvis.