Author: Christian Sadel

Speaker: Julien Royer. Universidad de Toulouse

Title: Local energy decay for the periodic damped wave equation

Place: Pontificia Universidad Católica, Facultad de Matemáticas, Campus San Joaquin, Sala 5

Abstract:
In this talk, we will discuss the local (or global) energy decay for the wave equation with damping at infinity. We are in particular interested in the case of a periodic (or asymptotically periodic) setting. We will mainly describe the contribution of low frequencies and observe that it behaves like the solution of some heat equation. We will see how this emerges from the spectral analysis of the damped wave equation.

Speaker: Fabian Belmonte. Universidad Católica del Norte

Title: Canonical Quantization of Constants of Motion

Place: Pontificia Universidad Católica, Facultad de Matemáticas, Campus San Joaquin, Sala 5

Abstract:
It is well known that Weyl quantization does not intertwine the Poisson bracket of two functions with the commutator of the corresponding operators (Groenewold- van Hove’s no go theorem). The latter suggest that Weyl quantization does not preserve the constants of motion of every given Hamiltonian, however, there are very important examples where it does so. In this talk we are going to approach the following problems:
a) Is it possible to determine the Hamiltonians for which a given canonical quantization preserves its constants of motion? We will give an interesting criteria partially answering this question in terms of the Wigner transform. We will give some important examples as well.
b) Conversely, is it possible to construct a canonical quantization preserving the constants of motion of a prescribed Hamiltonian? Under certain conditions, we will show a construction of such quantization based in the structural analogy between the description of classical and quantum constants of motion.

Speaker: Horia Cornean. Aalborg University

Title: A Beals criterion for magnetic pseudo-differential operators proved with magnetic Gabor frames

Place: Pontificia Universidad Católica, Facultad de Matemáticas, Campus San Joaquin, Sala 5

Abstract:
First, we give a new proof for the Beals commutator criterion for non-magnetic Weyl pseudo-differential operators based on classical Gabor tight frames. Second, by introducing a modified ‘magnetic’ Gabor tight frame, we naturally derive the magnetic analogue of the Beals criterion originally considered by Iftimie-Mantoiu-Purice. This is joint work with Bernard Helffer (Nantes) and Radu Purice (Bucharest). https://doi.org/10.1080/03605302.2018.1499777

Speaker: Andrés Fernando Reyes Lega. Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

Title: Emergent Gauge Symmetries, Quantum Operations and Anomalies

Place: Pontificia Universidad Católica, Facultad de Matemáticas (campus San Joaquin), Sala 5

Abstract:
The Gelfand-Naimark-Segal (GNS) construction is a fundamental tool for the study of the representation theory of operator algebras. It also plays a prominent role in the algebraic approach to quantum field theory. In this talk I will discuss some examples of applications of the algebraic approach to quantum physics to systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom. I will illustrate how the GNS construction naturally leads to interesting connections between gauge symmetries, anomalies and quantum-information concepts like entanglement entropy and quantum operations.

Massimo Moscolari. Aalborg University
Title: Beyond Diophantine Wannier diagrams: gap labelling for Bloch-Landau Hamiltonians
Place: Pontificia Universidad Católica, Facultad de Matemáticas (Campus San Joaquin), Sala 5
Abstract:
In 1978 Wannier discovered a Diophantine relation expressing the integrated density of states of a gapped group of bands of the Hofstadter Hamiltonian as a linear function of the magnetic field flux with integer slope. I will show how to extend this relation to a gap labelling theorem for any 2D Bloch-Landau Hamiltonian operator and to certain non-covariant systems having slowly varying magnetic fields. The integer slope will be interpreted as the Chern character of the projection onto the space of occupied states. The talk is based on a joint work with H. Cornean and D. Monaco.