Title: Loewner evolution and integrable systems
Speaker: Alexander Vasil’ev (University of Bergen, Norway)
Date: Monday, April 14, 2014
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
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Abstract: We argue that the Loewner equation serves as a background tool for some integrable systems. In particular, time splitting leads to the Vlasov equation for the distribution function of plasma, and to the Benney hierarchy. Infinite time splitting gives the Lax function which solves the dispersionless KP hierarcy in which the Benney equations may be recovered as the second in dKP.