Snake graphs and q-deformed real numbers
Colloquium Speaker: James Propp (UMass Lowell) Title: Snake graphs and q-deformed real numbers Abstract: I'll present a statistical-mechanical construction of q-deformed real numbers ]_q, inspired by the q-deformed rational numbers _q of Morier-Genoud and Ovsienko. The new construction admits two equivalent formulations: one in terms of random filters in snake posets and the other in terms of […]