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Contact topology and non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Mathematical Physics Seminar| Speaker: | Michael Entov, Technion |
| Location: | 918 3509 0938 Zoom-o-verse |
| Start time: | Thu, May 27 2021, 9:00AM |
"Hard" contact topology yields the existence of semi-infinite trajectories of contact Hamiltonian flows which start on one Legendrian submanifold and asymptotically converge to another Legendrian submanifold. I'll discuss a mathematical model of non-equilibrium thermodynamics where such trajectories play a role of relaxation processes, and illustrate it in the case of the Glauber dynamics for the 2D mean field Ising model. This is a joint work with L.Polterovich.
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