Activities This Week

The celebrated Gan-Gross-Prasad conjectures aim to describe the branching behavior of representations of classical groups, i.e., the decomposition of irreducible representations when restricted to a lower rank subgroup.

These conjectures, whose global/automorphic version bear significance in number theory, have thus far been formulated and resolved for the generic case.

In this talk, I will present a newly formulated rule in the p-adic setting (again conjectured by G-G-P) for restriction of representations in non-generic Arthur packets of GL_n.

Progress towards the proof of the new rule takes the problem into the rapidly developing subject of quantum affine algebras. These techniques use a version of the Schur-Weyl duality for affine Hecke algebras, combined with new combinatorial information on parabolic induction extracted by Lapid-Minguez.

The Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (TASEP) is a well-studied model where one assumes every site on Z to be either occupied by a particle or vacant. Each site has a Poisson clock attached to it, if the clock rings for site x, where there happens to be a particle, the particle makes a jump to site x+1 if it is vacant. The TASEP is often used to model traffic on a one lane road. In this work we generalize this model to a finite number of lanes where cars can move from one lane to another at different rates, and having different speed on each lane. We consider the problem of finding the stationary measures for this model as well as its hydrodynamics (what would the traffic look like from the point of view of a helicopter). The talk will be as self-contained as possible. Joint work with Gidi Amir, Christoph Bahadoran and Ellen Saada.