Project description
Fourier interpolation and universal optimality of the A2 lattice
The A2 lattice is a 2D lattice characterised by lattice points arranged in triangles forming a honeycomb-like pattern. Mathematicians have proposed that the A2 lattice is universally optimal – that it is the most efficient, lowest-energy way to arrange points in a plane for a wide range of energy functionals. This implies solutions to major, long-standing problems, including 2D crystallisation in materials and the emergence of vortices in superconductors. An analogue of this conjecture was recently proven for 8 and 24 dimensions using novel interpolation formulas. The ERC-funded FourIntExP project aims to significantly generalise these formulas for application in extremal problems in Fourier analysis, refine the 2D conjecture, and use them to prove the full conjecture.
Objective
In 2006 Cohn and Kumar have conjectured that the A2 lattice is universally optimal, meaning that it has the lowest potential energy among all configurations of the same density for all completely monotone potentials. This conjecture has several very important corollaries. Among other consequences, it is known that it implies a positive solution to the 2D crystallization problem, a major unsolved problem coming from materials science, and it also implies a conjecture on the emergence of the triangular lattice of Abrikosov vortices in the Landau-Ginzburg theory of superconductivity.
Recently, the 8 and 24-dimensional cases of the Cohn-Kumar conjecture have been positively resolved using novel interpolation formulas for radial Schwartz functions. This formula recovers a radial function from the data of it and its Fourier transform on a discrete set of radii, and its construction uses classical modular and quasi-modular forms.
In this project we will prove a significant generalization of these interpolation formulas with a view towards applications in extremal problems in Fourier analysis. To prove these formulas we will develop new analytic and numerical techniques for solving certain types of functional equations in one complex variable. Finally, based on these proposed interpolation formulas we will give a refinement of the Cohn-Kumar conjecture in dimension 2 and use it to attack the full conjecture in this case.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering crystals
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics mathematical analysis fourier analysis
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics algebra
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics discrete mathematics
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics superconductivity
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France
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