Dynamical Interpretation of the Asymptotic Distribution of Frobenius Numbers

Seminar: 
Graduate Student Seminar
Event time: 
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Han Li
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

Given a $d$-dimensional positive integral vector “a” such that $gcd(a_1,…a_d)=1$, the Frobenius number $F(a)$ is defined to be the largest number which is not representable as a non-negative integer linear combination of the coefficients of “a”. In this talk, we will introduce a striking geometric interpretation of Frobenius numbers by Ravi Kannan, and describe recent results on asymptotic distribution of Frobenius numbers by Jens Marklof using homogeneous dynamics.