16.05.2024, 16:15
– Raum 1.10
Forschungsseminar Differentialgeometrie
Rigidity of initial data sets in Minkowski space
Christian Bär (UP)
Matthias Ludewig (Adelaide)
Recently, physicists have been able to create “topological states” localised on the boundary of a 2D system, which have rather crazy properties: they fill up spectral gaps in the boundary-less 2D problem, and have quantised propagation along the boundary regardless of its shape. I will exhibit how operator K-theory can be used to explain this phenomenon.