Author Archives: Hyungryul

About Hyungryul

2003.3-2009.8 KAIST, Undergraduate student in Mathematics 2009.8-2014.8 Cornell University, PhD student in Mathematics 2014.9-2017.2 University of Bonn, Postdoc 2017.3-2021.2. KAIST, Assistant Professor 2021.3-Present. KAIST, Associate Professor

2020-23 The area of a random polygon

Suppose we choose a point on the unit circle in the plane at random with the uniform probability measure on the circle. When we choose n points in that way, what is the probability of the n-gon obtained as the convex hull of the chosen points has the area bigger than \( \pi/2 \) in terms of n?

2020-20 Efficient triangulation of surfaces

Let \(S_g\) denote the closed orientable connected surface of genus \(g\). Suppose we glue triangles along the edges so that the resulting space is \(S_g\) and the intersection of any two triangles are either empty or a single edge. Let \( n(g) \) be the minimum number of triangles one needs to make \(S_g\) while satisfying the above rule. What are \( n(1), n(2), n(3) \)? Does the limit \( \lim_{g \to \infty} n(g)/g \) exist?

2020-14 Connecting dots probabilistically

Say there are n points. For each pair of points, we add an edge with probability 1/3. Let \(P_n\) be the probability of the resulting graph to be connected (meaning any two vertices can be joined by an edge path). What can you say about the limit of \(P_n\) as n tends to infinity?

2020-08 Geometric action revisited

In the problem 2019-08 (https://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/pow/2019/2019-08-group-action/), we considered a group G acting by isometries on a proper geodesic metric space X properly discontinuously and cocompactly. Such an action is called a geometric action. The conclusion was that a geometric action leads to that G is finitely generated.

Would this conclusion still hold in the case the space X is not necessarily proper?

2019-22 Prime divisors of polynomial iterates

Let \(f = X^n + a_{n-1}X^{n-1} + \dots + a_0\in \mathbb{Z}[X]\) be a polynomial with integer coefficients, and let \(m\in \mathbb{Z}\).

Consider the sequence \[f_0,f_1,f_2,\dots \]

where \(f_0:=m\), and \(f_i:=f(f_{i-1})\) for all \(i\ge 1\).

Let \(S:=\{p\in \mathbb{P}: p \text{ divides } f_i \text{ for some } i\ge 0\}\) be the set of prime divisors of the sequence \(f_0,f_1,f_2,\dots\). 

Assume that \(S\) is finite, but \(\{f_i\mid i\ge 0\}\) is infinite. Show that \(f=X^n\).