

Ergodic theory of the geodesic flow of hyperbolic surfaces - Lecture 1
By Barbara Schapira


Ergodic theory of the geodesic flow of hyperbolic surfaces - Lecture 2
By Barbara Schapira
Appears in collection : Hodge theory, Stokes phenomenon and applications / Théorie de Hodge, phénomène de Stokes et applications
There is a very general story, due to Joyce and Kontsevich-Soibelman, which associates to a CY3 (three-dimensional Calabi-Yau) triangulated category equipped with a stability condition some rational numbers called Donaldson-Thomas (DT) invariants. The point I want to emphasise is that the wall-crossing formula, which describes how these numbers change as the stability condition is varied, takes the form of an iso-Stokes condition for a family of connections on the punctured disc, where the structure group is the infinite-dimensional group of symplectic automorphisms of an algebraic torus. I will not assume any knowledge of stability conditions, DT invariants etc.