Saturday, November 14, 2020

Autumn 2020



19 Nov and 3 Dec 2020

K. V. Shajesh

Casimir Effect

Recording of Part 1 

Recording of Part 2



Thursdays 2pm for seminar, any time for a chat:

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Autumn 2020


5 and 12 Nov 2020

Jerzy Kocik 

Integrality implies super-integrality and hyper-integrality

Part 2:  Disks as vectors in Minkowski space, inversions, and conclusion of the proof. 

See Apolloniana for some background

Recording of Part 1
Recording of Part 2


Part 1: Here are two warm-up problems (related, but not central):

Suppose 4 integers do not have a common factor, gcd(a,b,c,d)=1, and satisfy quadratic equation $$(a+b+c+d)^2 = 2\, (a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2)$$ Show that:
1.  Exactly two of them are odd  (easy)
2.  The sum of any two can be written as a sum of two squares (a challenge)

Examples of solutions to the quadratic equation: (2,3,6,23), (2,3,15,38), (3,6, 14 47), (0,1,4,9), (11,14,15,89),...