Geometric Problems in Conformal Analysis, Dynamics, and Probability

共形映射和全纯映射是数学、物理、工程和概率等许多领域的基础。这是两种特殊的映射，它们保持了角度和复杂的结构。例如，布朗运动（连续随机路径的数学模型）可以使用保角分析进行研究，该项目将使用这种方法来研究一些众所周知的问题，例如，以确定布朗运动覆盖了哪些类型的简单集合。该项目的另一个重点是全纯函数的迭代理论。PI将研究与整函数（定义在整个平面上的全纯函数）相关的Julia集和Fatou集的大小，形状和行为。传统上，大多数工作都集中在多项式的特殊情况下;更一般的整函数的情况被称为“超越动力学”，但迄今为止研究得很少。该项目还将考虑分析中的几个问题，这些问题可以使用离散和计算几何的思想进行攻击。这项工作的成功完成可能会导致更快的算法与网格，用于图形学，医学成像，以及各种各样的设计和制造应用。该项目分为几个广泛的领域：超越动力学，布朗运动，分析与计算几何的相互作用。继续早期的工作，PI将研究一些问题，如计算整函数的Julia集的维数，研究具有有界轨道的游荡域的存在性，以及研究逃逸集（指向无穷大的点）。PI还将研究随机集的相关几何问题，如布朗运动，考虑两个众所周知的问题（布朗运动是否覆盖任何可求长的弧？）以及更新颖的问题（布朗运动对于共形映射是可移动的吗？这组截点是否位于可求长曲线上？）最后，PI将致力于扩展他早期的算法，用于优化网格，三角剖分和保角映射，使用分析，几何和拓扑学的思想。最有趣的推广将是三维，其中没有严格的复杂性界限是已知的，但最重要的应用所在。该提案还考虑了在“纯”分析中的问题，这些问题可以使用计算几何中已知结果的加强版本来解决;其中一个问题是BMO拓扑中弦弧曲线空间的连通性;另一个问题是将一般双Lipschitz映射分解为具有小常数的双Lipschitz映射。

Conformal and holomorphic maps are fundamental to many areas of mathematics, physics, engineering and probability. These are two special kinds of maps that preserve angles and complex structures. For example, Brownian motion (a mathematical model of continuous random paths) can be studied using conformal analysis and the project will use this approach to investigate some well known problems, e.g., to determine what types of simple sets are covered by Brownian motion. Another focus of the project is the iteration theory of holomorphic functions. The PI will study the size, shape and behavior of the Julia and Fatou sets associated to entire functions (holomorphic functions defined on the whole plane). Traditionally, most work has focused on the special case of polynomials; the case of more general entire functions is known as "transcendental dynamics", but has been much less studied so far. The project will also consider several problems in analysis that can be attacked using ideas from discrete and computational geometry. Successful completion of this work could result in faster algorithms related to meshing, as used in graphics, medical imaging, and a wide variety of design and manufacturing applications.The project divides into several broad areas: transcendental dynamics, Brownian motion, and the interactions of analysis with computational geometry. Continuing earlier work, the PI will study problems such as computing the dimension of Julia sets of entire functions, investigating the existence of wandering domains with bounded orbits, and studying the escaping set (points that iterate to infinity). The PI will also work on related geometric problems for random sets such as Brownian motion, considering both well known questions (does Brownian motion cover any rectifiable arcs?) as well as more novel ones (is Brownian motion removable for conformal maps? Does the set of cut-points lie on a rectifiable curve?) Finally, the PI will work on extending his earlier algorithms for optimal meshing, triangulation and conformal mapping using ideas from analysis, geometry and topology. The most interesting generalization would be to three dimensions, where no rigorous complexity bounds are known, but where the most important applications lie. The proposal also considers problems in "pure" analysis that might be solved using strengthened versions of known results in computational geometry; one such problem is the connectedness of the space of chord-arc curves in the BMO topology; another is the factoring of general bi-Lipschitz maps into bi-Lipschitz maps with small constants.