From rotating needles to stability of waves; emerging connections between combinatorics, analysis and PDE
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2007-05-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
We survey the interconnections between geometric combinatorics (such as the Kakeya problem), arithmetic combinatorics (such as the classical problem of determining which sets contain arithmetic progressions), oscillatory integrals (such as the Bochner-Riesz, restriction, and local smoothing problems), and the local and global well-posedness theory for non-linear dispersive and wave equations.
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@article{arxiv.math/0008098,
title = {From rotating needles to stability of waves; emerging connections between combinatorics, analysis and PDE},
author = {Terence Tao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0008098},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
32 pages, 9 figures, submitted, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. (The published version is likely to be substantially shorter)