Research

Classical Analysis
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Title: Riemann-Hilbert problem for a type of planar orthogonal polynomials, Part III
Speaker: Abril Arenas
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Place: CMC 130

Friday, November 14, 2025

Title: Riemann-Hilbert problem for a type of planar orthogonal polynomials, Part II
Speaker: Abril Arenas
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Place: CMC 130

Friday, November 7, 2025

Title: Riemann-Hilbert problem for a type of planar orthogonal polynomials
Speaker: Abril Arenas
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Place: CMC 130

Abstract

Planar orthogonal polynomials are fundamental objects of interest in the random matrix theory, the statistics of a particular model are encoded in the asymptotics of planar orthogonal polynomials. The family of planar orthogonal polynomials, and the matrix model, depends on a weight of the form \(\exp[-Q(z)]\). When \(Q(z)=|z|^2\) the associated planar orthogonal polynomials are just monomials \(z^n\). Starting with P. Di Francesco et al, taking the simplest harmonic deformation, \(Q(Z)=|z|^2+A\left(z^2 + \bar(z)^2\right)\), leads to the study of Hermite polynomials. Beginning with a paper by P. Bleher and A. Kuijlaars; they considered polynomials associated to the potential \(Q(z)=|z|^2+A\left(z^3+\bar(z)^3\right)\) which are no longer classical yet they managed to find asymptotics using the Riemann-Hilbert apparatus, although in this setting one has to introduce a cutoff to handle convergence issues.

F. Balogh, M. Bertola, S. Lee, and K. McLaughlin studied planar orthogonal polynomials associated to the potential \(Q(z)=|z|^2-2c\log|z-a|\). The polynomials associated to this potential are again no longer classical orthogonal polynomials, yet their idea was to translate planar orthogonality into type II Hermite-Padé multiple orthogonality and then use the Riemann Hilbert technology to study asymptotics of the polynomials.

Following their idea I will present a family of planar orthogonal polynomials associated to the potential \(Q(z)=|z|^2p+2\Re H(z)\); \(H(z)\) a polynomial of degree at most \(2p\). In this talk I will present how to pass from planar orthogonality to a kind of contour orthogonality. This contour orthogonality then allows us to pose a novel Riemann-Hilbert problem characterizing this family of polynomials. The talk should be accessible to any student having taken a semester of complex analysis. As always we will start from the beginning.

Friday, October 31, 2025

No seminar this week.

Friday, October 24, 2025

No seminar this week.

Friday, October 17, 2025

No seminar this week.

Friday, October 10, 2025

No seminar this week.

Friday, October 3, 2025

Title: Algebra, PDE, Analytic Continuation of the Solutions, Part III
Speaker: Dima Khavinson
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Place: CMC 130

Friday, September 26, 2025

Title: Algebra, PDE, Analytic Continuation of the Solutions, Part II
Speaker: Dima Khavinson
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Place: CMC 130

Friday, September 19, 2025

Title: Algebra, PDE, Analytic Continuation of the Solutions, Part I
Speaker: Dima Khavinson
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Place: CMC 130

Abstract

We shall discuss Hesse’s conjecture for homogeneous polynomials and Korenblum’s conjecture on algebras of harmonic functions from the standpoint of nonlinear first-order PDE. Also, we show how to extend a recent theorem of McKinley and Shekhtman for homogeneous polynomial partial differential operators to a much wider class of linear PDE with entire coefficients by putting it into a general framework of analytic continuation of solutions of linear holomorphic PDE.

Most of the talk should be accessible to students.

Friday, September 12, 2025

Title: The Joint Spectral Radius problem in a random setting, Part II
Speaker: Razvan Teodorescu
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Place: CMC 130

Friday, September 5, 2025

Title: The Joint Spectral Radius problem in a random setting, Part I
Speaker: Razvan Teodorescu
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Place: CMC 130

Abstract

Computing the Joint Spectral Radius (JSR) for the switching problem from a finite set, \(S\), of positive-definite square matrices of size \(k\), is a classical example of an NP-hard case of analytic extraction. Furthermore, for matrices over the rational field, sub-unitary boundness of JSR is known to be undecidable. To make matters worse, we consider a random switching protocol from a matrix ensemble, in the infinite \(k\) limit. Surprisingly, this allows for a complex-analytic approach and points to possible new conjectures.