Harmonic maps into Euclidean buildings

Seminar: 
Geometric Analysis and Application
Event time: 
Monday, September 15, 2025 - 3:45pm
Location: 
KT 906
Speaker: 
Benjamin Dees
Speaker affiliation: 
Brown University
Event description: 

Abstract: This talk will discuss regularity results for harmonic maps into a certain kind of metric space, called Euclidean buildings.  This will include a discussion of what these spaces are, the behavior of harmonic maps into these spaces, and the connection to superrigidity results for lattices.  We will discuss previously known regularity results before presenting a recent theorem of Breiner, Mese, and myself which generalizes these considerably.