立命館大学数理科学科

講演者：Wolfram Bauer (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

題目：Subriemannian geometry and spectral analysis

概要：

A regular subriemannian manifold $M$ carries a geometric hypoelliptic operator which often is referred to as sublaplacian. Due to the specific degeneracy of its symbol, interesting geometric and analytic effects can be observed in the study of this operator, which have no counterpart in the area of Riemannian geometry. In particular, during the last decades an inverse spectral problem which aims to extract geometric information from the operator spectrum has been considered by various authors. Typical approaches are based on the analysis of the induced subriemannian heat or wave equation.

In this talk we survey some results on the spectral theory of the sublaplacian in the case of certain compact nilmanifolds or so-called $H$-type foliations and we address some seemingly open problems. This presentation is based on joint work with K. Furutani, C. Iwasaki and A. Laaroussi, I. Markina and G. Vega-Molino.