Speaker: Hugh WoodinW. Hugh Woodin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and a Professor of Philosophy and of Mathematics at Harvard University. Woodin is a leading set theorist. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models and determinacy, to functional analysis, and recursion theory. A type of large cardinal, the...
Abstract:The Brascamp-Lieb inequalities are deep and beautiful inequalities on Euclidean spaces introduced by Brascamp and Lieb in 1976. They cover many fundamental and important inequalities such as Hölder's inequality, the Loomis-Whitney inequality, Young's inequality, etc. In this talk we give a short introduction to the Brascamp-Lieb inequalities and their applications. We prove one type o...