

{"id":14,"date":"2024-05-09T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:49:01","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My current research revolves around geometric Galois actions, operads and questions related to finite type invariants of knots. The questions I am \nworking on are motivated by the study of embedding spaces and Drinfeld&#8217;s Grothendieck-Teichmueller group which, in turn, has links to the absolute Galois group of rational numbers and the theory of motives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a US based participant of the International Research Network <a href=\"https:\/\/ahgt.math.cnrs.fr\/\">Arithmetic &amp; Homotopic Galois Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><h4>Exploration of Grothendieck-Teichmueller(GT)-shadows and their action on Grothendieck&#8217;s child&#8217;s drawings<\/h4><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\n<li> My Zoom <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=69b5c07d-3dc5-4f80-94d7-b24b01551d23\">talk<\/a> at the Algebra Seminar at Bar-Ilan University on December 18, 2024. Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/12\/Bar_Ilan_Slides.pdf\">slides<\/a>.\n\n<li> In <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2405.11725\">this paper<\/a> (joint with Ivan Bortnovskyi, Borys Holikov, Vadym Pashkovskyi), we gave the first examples of non-abelian quotients of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group and these quotients receive surjective homomorphisms from the absolute Galois group of rational numbers.   \n\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2401.06870\">The paper<\/a> (joint with Jacob Guynee) is devoted to GT-shadows for the gentle version of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group.\n\n<li> My <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=4e1f3d4d-9904-4bc4-821d-b17700e079ba\">talk<\/a> at the \n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahgt.math.cnrs.fr\/seminar\/\">AHGT Seminar<\/a> in December 2023. \n\n<li> The \n<a href=\"https:\/\/math.mit.edu\/research\/highschool\/primes\/materials\/2023\/YD\/Bortnovskyi-Pashkovskyi.pdf\">final research paper<\/a> \nby Ivan Bortnovskyi and Vadym Pashkovskyi &#8220;Exploration of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller (GT) shadows for the dihedral poset&#8221;.\n\n<li> My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ET50e_u_CkM\">seminar talk<\/a> at Topology Seminar at the University of Minnesota. The virtual talk was given on Sept 26, 2022. The slides are available <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/05\/GTgentle_Slides26Sep.pdf\">here<\/a>.\n\n<li> My <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=41c29e81-5dd1-4ae9-bb34-b1770009e992\">seminar talk<\/a> at Algebra\/Galois Theory \nSeminar at Penn. The virtual talk was given on Sept 12, 2022. The slides are available \n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/05\/GTgentle_Slides.pdf\">here<\/a>.\n\n<li> My <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=e1fd9a6a-a8fd-4c3d-b184-b1770003c6c3\">seminar talk<\/a> at the University of Angers, France. The virtual talk was given on May 27, 2022. The slides (without pauses) are available <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/05\/GTSlidesAngers.pdf\">here<\/a>.\n\n<li> My virtual 50 minute <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=a85a0a51-2058-4d45-be29-b16b012e4497\">colloquium talk<\/a> at the University of Nevada, Reno about GT-shadows and their action on child&#8217;s drawings. The virtual talk was given on March 3, 2022.  \n\n<li> Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarshare.temple.edu\/handle\/20.500.12613\/6910\"> Jingfeng Xia&#8217;s master thesis<\/a>. \nIt is devoted to the groupoid of GT-shadows for the gentle version of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group. It also contains partial results about the connected components of this groupoid related to finite quotients of the full modular group. \n\n<li> My 46 minute <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=f3609b61-cb51-4563-bb7a-b17700e185f8\">video presentation<\/a> about \nGT-shadows and their action on child&#8217;s drawings. This video presentation is very similar to my virtual talk at the conference &#8220;Koszul Duality &amp; Operads&#8221; that took place in October 2020 and it was organized by CIRM (Marseille, France)and \nMPI MiS (Leipzig, Germany). \n\n\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2106.06645\">The paper<\/a> is devoted to the action of GT-shadows on child&#8217;s drawings. Note that, in this paper, I work with GT-shadows for the original version of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group. \n\n<li> The final version (03\/16\/2022) of the software package (as a zip-file) for working with GT-shadows and their action on child&#8217;s drawings can be found \n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/05\/PackageGT.zip\">here<\/a>.   \n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/05\/PackageGT_README.pdf\">The detailed documentation<\/a> for \nthis package includes many examples. \n\n<ul>\n\n<li> Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=d423e3c8-ef11-425d-a2f0-b1770012b5d5\">Session 1<\/a> for working with the package GT (recorded on 03\/28\/2022). <\/li>\n\n<li> Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=a7b50947-b697-4188-b0b1-b18100f79632\">Session 2<\/a> for working with the package GT  (recorded on 03\/30\/2022).  <\/li>\n\n<li> Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=003ba1a2-54e8-4f8b-850e-b18100f9a6ba\">Session 3<\/a> for working with the package GT (recorded on 03\/31\/2022). <\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<li> The joint paper with K.Q. Le and A.A. Lorenz <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2008.00066\">What are GT-shadows?<\/a> will appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology.\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\nThe term &#8220;GT-shadow&#8221; could have been introduced in paper \n<a href=\"https:\/\/webusers.imj-prg.fr\/~leila.schneps\/HarbSch.pdf\">Approximating Galois orbits of dessins<\/a> by David Harbater and Leila Schneps from 1997. The authors used a different (but equivalent) definition of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group but all the original ideas for &#8220;approximations&#8221; can be found \nin their paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><h4>Other useful things<\/h4><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/08\/PackageGerBr_README.pdf\">Documentation<\/a> for the package that allows one to compute Tamarkin&#8217;s Ger-infinity structure on Hochschild cochains recursively. This <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/08\/PackageGerBr.zip\">package<\/a> accompanies the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1610.04879\">joint paper<\/a> with Geoffrey Schneider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/05\/thesis.pdf\">PhD thesis<\/a> in mathematics. And&#8230; here is <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/05\/Erratum.pdf\">the erratum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vald\/files\/2024\/05\/disser.pdf\">PhD thesis<\/a> in theoretical physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My current research revolves around geometric Galois actions, operads and questions related to finite type invariants of knots. 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