Orateur
Jean Mawhin
Description
Petru Mironescu, in a series of works alone or in collaboration, especially with the late Haïm Brezis, has shown the important role played by a formula of Jacobi in the definition and study of the distributional Jacobian.
In this lecture, we recall some aspects of the tortuous history of this formula described in [1], and comment on some new historical facts and some new links to classical problems not included in [1].
[1] H. Brezis, J. Mawhin and P. Mironescu, A brief history of the Jacobian, Comm. Contemp. Math. 26 (2) (2024), 233001.