Workshops

The tt*-Toda Equations

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Martin Guest

2011-06-03
13:30:00 - 15:00:00

R102 , Astronomy and Mathematics Building



I will describe joint work with Chang-Shou Lin in which we establish existence and uniqueness of special solutions to certain systems of pde related to the Toda lattice. These equations arise in physics as a special case of the tt*-equations, and they admit a reduction to systems of coupled ode of Painleve type. The special solutions are parametrised by asymptotic data, which can be interpreted as monodromy data.