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SUMMARY:Jason Lotay (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/DGSTO/6/">Mi
 nimal Lagrangians and where to find them</a>\nby Jason Lotay (University o
 f Oxford) as part of Differential Geometry Seminar Torino\n\n\nAbstract\nA
  classical problem going back to ancient Greece is to find the shortest cu
 rve in the plane enclosing a given area: the isoperimetric problem. A simi
 lar question is whether given a curve on a surface it can be deformed to a
  shortest one. Whilst the solutions to these classical problems are well-k
 nown\, natural generalisations in higher dimensions are mostly unsolved. I
  will explain how this leads us to the study of minimal Lagrangians and th
 e question of how to find them\, which will take us to the interface betwe
 en symplectic topology\, Riemannian geometry and analysis of nonlinear PDE
 s\, with links to theoretical physics.\n\nThis talk will be held on the oc
 casion of the PRIN seminar organised by the Università di Torino PRIN uni
 t.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/DGSTO/6/
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