Hamiltonian Systems

Event Information Folding of quadrilaterals
12:00 on Tuesday December 06, 2022
13:30 on Tuesday December 06, 2022
Virtual
Ivan Izmestiev

TU Wien, Austria

Darboux's porism deals with the periodicity of quadrilateral folding: alternating reflection of two vertices in the respective diagonals. We explain how this dynamics is related to involutions of an elliptic curve and speak about relations to other known porisms and geometric curiosities.

The talk will be via Zoom at: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/99576627828

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