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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Food for Thought

Nicholas Sieger

UCSD

Cutting Down Trees to Solve ODEs

Abstract:

We show how to express the solution to an ordinary differential equation as a sum over rooted trees, discover a group structure on the set of rooted trees, extend it to a Hopf algebra related to quantum renormalization, and finally bring ourselves back down to Earth and derive the coefficients used in Runge-Kutta integrators.

March 5, 2020

12:30 PM

AP&M 6402

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