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JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


On the shrinking target property and torus translations

Bassam Fayad

Universite Paris 13

Brandeis University

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Talk at 4:30 p.m. in 317 Goldsmith Hall

Tea at 4:00 p.m. in 300 Goldsmith Hall


Abstract: The monotone shrinking target property is displayed by minimal torus translations if and only if they are of bounded type. In contrast, there exist mixing flows on the torus that do not have this property.


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