Thursday, October 24, 2024

Shashank Chorge (IIT, Gandhinagar) -- Thursday, Oct 24, 2024, 5:00 PM IST


 Talk Announcement: 


Title:  Voronoi summation formulas for certain arithmetic functions and related identities and omega bounds on error terms


Speaker:  Shashank Chorge (IIT, Gandhinagar)
When: Oct 24, 2024, 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM IST

Where: Zoom: Write to the organisers



Abstract:The Voronoi summation formulas for the divisor function and $r_2(n)$ are well-known. Not only do these formulas have interesting structure, but they have also been used to improve the error term in the Dirichlet divisor problem and the Gauss circle problem respectively. 

In this work we derive Voronoi summation
formulas for some other functions related to the generalized divisor function-$d^2(n)$ and Liouville Lambda function-$\lambda(n)$ and Mobius function-$\mu(n)$. We also make use of Vinogradov-Korobov zero free region for the Riemann zeta function to obtain the results.

We also derive beautiful analogues of Cohen's identity and the Ramanujan-Guinand formula associated to these functions.

We also derive certain Omega-bounds for the weighted sums of $d^2(n)$, $\lambda(n)$ and $\mu(n)$ assuming the Linear Independence conjecture.

This is a joint work with Atul Dixit.

Best wishes,

Gaurav Bhatnagar, Atul Dixit and Krishnan Rajkumar (organisers)

Monday, October 7, 2024

Hjalmar Rosengren (Chalmars) -- Thursday, Oct 10, 2024, 4:00 PM IST (12:30 PM CEST)

 Dear all,


Our talk this week is by Hjalmar Rosengren (Chalmers). Here is the announcement.

Talk Announcement: 

Title:  
String amplitudes and partial fractions: A mathematician's perspective
Speaker:  Hjalmar Rosengren (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
When: Oct 10, 2024, 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM IST/ 12:30 PM (CEST)



Abstract:
Using physics methods, Saha and Sinha recently obtained many intriguing expansions of string amplitudes (see Sinha's talk in this seminar 3 October). From a mathematical perspective, they are very unusual deformations of classical hypergeometric identities. One very special case gives a deformation of Madhava's famous series for pi, which received a lot of media attention. I will discuss these identities from a mathematical perspective. They can be derived from partial fraction expansions for symmetric rational functions, which may have some independent interest. 

The talk is based on the preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06658


Best wishes,

Gaurav Bhatnagar, Atul Dixit and Krishnan Rajkumar (organisers)

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Aninda Sinha (IISc, Bangalore) -- Thursday, Oct 3, 2024, 4:00 PM IST


Dear all,

We are back to our usual time with a talk by Aninda Sinha of IISc, Bangalore. 

Next week (on Oct 10), we will have a follow-up talk by Hjalmar Rosengren on the topic: String amplitudes and partial fractions: A mathematician's perspective. The formal announcement will be made on the weekend. But please mark your calendars. 


Talk Announcement: 

Title:  
Field theory expansions of string theory amplitudes
Speaker:  Aninda Sinha (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
When: Oct 3, 2024, 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM IST 


Abstract:

This talk is based on: Phys. Rev. Lett. 132 (2024) 22, 221601 (e-print: 2401.05733 [hep-th])

I will explain the reasons (both physics and maths) for trying to find a new formula, satisfying certain physics inspired criteria, for the Euler-Beta and related functions. I will give a sketch of the derivation which relies on a novel dispersion relation. Towards the end, time permitting, new results from the Bootstrap will be presented. 


Best wishes,

Gaurav Bhatnagar, Atul Dixit and Krishnan Rajkumar (organisers)