Time and place: Thursday 2pm, 891 Evans
Mailing list: If you want to be added, let me know, preferably by
email (guss@math.b....)
Plan:
We're planning to start with Nigel Hitchin's lecture notes in the book "Integrable systems: twistors, loops groups and Riemann surfaces", and his original paper "Stable bundles and integrable systems."
We then plan on covering the material in Michael Semenov-Tyan-Shansky's notes
"Quantum and classical integrable systems."
Here's a rough plan of the topics for individial talks:
For Hitchin's lectures:
Calendar of participant talks:
September | ||
5 |
Gus Schrader |
Introduction. |
12 |
Piotr Achinger |
Geometric prerequisites for Hitchin integrable systems. |
19 |
Qiao Zhou |
Algebraic integrable systems. |
26 |
Alexander Shapiro |
Hitchin systems. |
October | ||
3 |
Piotr Achinger |
The Hitchin fibration. |
10 |
Nicolai Reshetikhin |
KZ equations and Hitchin systems. |
17 |
Gus Schrader |
The Hamilton Jacobi method and Jacobians | 24 |
Gus Schrader |
Algebraic construction of classical integrable systems: Toda chains and the Gaudin model. |
I'll introduce the notion of a classical integrable system, and talk a litle about where the seminar might be heading.
Notes.
This talk will cover algebraic geometry prerequisites necessary for the construction of the Hitchin integrable system. We will review the theory of algebraic curves and line and vector bundles on them.
We are going to introduce the notion of an algebraic integrable
system. We will discuss the spectral curve, the Lax pair of equations,
and the dynamics of the system on the Jacobian of the spectral curve.
I will explain how an integrable system arises in a natural way on the moduli space of stable vector bundles (of fixed rank and degree) over a Riemann surface
We will study properties of the Hitchin map associated to a moduli
space of stable bundles on a curve. We will identify a general fiber
of this map with an open subset of the Jacobian of the corresponding
spectral curve and construct a "relative compactification" of the
Hitchin map.
I will talk about classical and quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations and their relation to Hitchin systems.
I will explain the Hamilton-Jacobi method of constructing angle coordinates on the Liouville tori of an integrable system. In these coordinates, the time evolution of the system is simply linear motion with constant velocity. We will apply this method to the example of the Gaudin spin chain introduced last week. In this case, we will identify our change-of-coordinate map with the Abel map associated to the system's spectral curves.
Notes.
I'll return to the examples of the open Toda chain and the Gaudin model, and explain how to construct (and solve) them Lie-theoretically.
Notes.
September 12, Piotr Achinger: Geometric prerequisites for Hitchin integrable systems.
September 19, Qiao Zhou: Algebraic integrable systems.
September 26, Alexander Shapiro: Hitchin systems.
October 3, Piotr Achinger: The Hitchin fibration.
October 10, Nicolai Reshetikhin: KZ equations and Hitchin systems.
October 17, Gus Schrader: The Hamilton-Jacobi method and Jacobians.
October 24, Gus Schrader: Algebraic construction of classical integrable systems: Toda chains and the Gaudin model.
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