Special Colloquium
Speaker: Uwe Franz, Universite Marie et Louis Pasteur, France
Host: Sutanu Roy
Title: What can Levy processes tell us about compact quantum groups?
Time, day and date: 4:00:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM, Tuesday, October 28
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Abstract: Schurmann has defined Levy processes on involutive bialgebras, a generalization of the notion of Levy processes with values in groups or semigroups, to the setting of noncommutative stochastic processes. This talk will provide an introduction to these processes. We will then apply this theory to compact quantum groups in the sense of Woronowicz, and discuss how Levy processes can provide geometric information, like a spectral dimension or a notion of connected component of the unit, on these quantum spaces.