[08/05/2023] Πανελλήνιο Διαδικτυακό Σεμινάριο Άλγεβρας και Θεωρίας Αριθμών – Theo Douvropoulos (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Recursions and Proofs in Coxeter-Catalan combinatorics

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Θα θέλαμε να σας ενημερώσουμε ότι τη Δευτέρα 8 Μαΐου στις 16:00, στο πλαίσιο του Διαδικτυακού Σεμιναρίου Άλγεβρας και Θεωρίας Αριθμών, θα δώσει ομιλία ο Theo Douvropoulos (University of Massachusetts at Amherst).

Τίτλος: Recursions and Proofs in Coxeter-Catalan combinatorics

Περίληψη: In a significant -yet absolutely understandable- deviation from traditions of logic, secularism, and platonic dialectic, combinatorialists the world around have celebrated Catalan objects with a reverence better suited to mystical, preternatural endeavors. Various sects have been formed through the years by mathematicians who study particular aspects of the Catalan doctrine, including the Coxeter-Catalan sect of which the speaker might be a member.

One of the central objects in Coxeter-Catalan combinatorics is the noncrossing partition lattice NC(W) associated to a finite Coxeter group W and its sibling object, the cluster complex Y(W). These two objects encode much of the geometric group theory, combinatorics, and representation theory of W, and they have fascinating stuctural and enumerative properties; in particular, the zeta polynomials of certain intervals in NC(W) and the (almost) colored f-vectors of Y(W) all have product formulas given in terms of invariants of W (generalizing formulas of Kreweras and Loday for the symmetric group case). A central open problem in the area since at least the early 2000’s has been to give case-free proofs of these product formulas, i.e. proofs that do not depend on the classification of finite Coxeter groups. In this talk, I will present the first such proof, in collaboration with Matthieu Josuat-Verges, solving the more general Fuss version of the problem; in our approach, we develop a collection of recursions that are shown to be satisfied by both the combinatorial objects and the product formulas.

Zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/97698390911?pwd=SVk0SlFMU25NVVlnZHFIQU1KZ3liUT09

Meeting ID: 976 9839 0911
Passcode: 956866

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