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
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)
When: Oct 10, 2024, 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM IST/ 12:30 PM (CEST)
Where: Zoom: Zoom
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.
Best wishes,
Gaurav Bhatnagar, Atul Dixit and Krishnan Rajkumar (organisers)
