Braids and differential equations

  • Robert Ghrist

    University of Illinois, Urbana, United States
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Abstract

Forcing theorems based on topological features of invariant sets have played a fundamental role in dynamics and differential equations. This talk focuses on the recent work of Vandervorst, Van den Berg, and the author using braids to construct a forcing theory for scalar parabolic PDEs, second-order Lagrangian ODEs, and one-dimensional lattice dynamics.