Possible Topics for a Thesis
Bachelor
- Bertrand's Theorem on central forces and relativistic precession
- The three-body problem and the shape sphere
- Curves of constant width
- Topics from the Theory of Convexity: John-Loewner ellipsoids, Brunn-Minkowski inequality, Steiner Formula.
- Berger Theorem: only ellipsoidal billiard tables have caustics in three-dimensional space
- The conformal transformation of the night sky in special relativity (after Ettore Minguzzi)
- The ubiquity of Hopf Rigidity: convex billiards, magnetic systems and nonlinear elliptic equations
- The set of singular points of the distance function to a closed subset after Albert Fathi
- The topological sphere theorem
Master
- Integrable magnetic flows on the two-torus
- Systolic geometry in dimension 2
- Mane Theory of globally minimizing curves for Tonelli systems
- Aubry-Mather theory in dimension 2: Hedlund's closing lemma (Proposition 2.1)
- The mountain pass lemma for multivalued functionals
- The replicator equation in infinite dimensions
- Foliating a manifold by circles: the theorems of Wadsley, Epstein and a counterexample of Thurston (Appendix A)
- Smith theory: fixed points of actions of finite groups
- Brouwer translation theorem
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