Randomness, Gaps, and Homogeneous Dynamics

by Prof. Jayadev Athreya (University of Illinois, USA)

Wednesday 30 Jul 2014, 11:00 → 12:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-77 (Colaba Campus)

We explore notions of randomness using gap distributions and
pair correlations for various sequences of number-theoretic interest.
Our tools are mainly dynamics of Lie groups on homogeneous spaces.