Proof of Yuzvinsky's conjecture in the case of square matrices

  • Date: 02/07/2007
Lecturer(s):

Kee Yuen Lam (University of British Columbia)

Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Yuzvinsky's conjecture, posed in 1981, is concerned with a certain
matrix coloring problem which arose from the classical studies of sums
of squares. In this talk I will present a proof of the conjecture in
the case of square matrices. The ideas of the proof are inspired by
algebra and topology, despite the purely combinatorial nature of the
conjecture itself.

Other Information: 

Algebraic Topology Seminar 2007

Sponsor: 

pims