Functional Analysis and Applications Seminar 

17/06/2011, 14:15 — 15:15 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
António Ferreira dos Santos, Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL and CEAF

Riemann-Hilbert problems, Lax equations and singularities

The existence of singularities of solutions of Lax equations is related to the kernel of a Toeplitz operator.The singularities are obtained from the study of an associated Riemann-Hilbert problem. An example is presented.