Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar
— 4:30pm
Location:
In Person
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Wean Hall 8220
Speaker:
ALEXANDER MASON
Ph.D. Student, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
https://math.washington.edu/people/alexander-mason
h-vector inequalities for weak maps of matroids
The study of matroids and their invariants has undergone remarkable developments in recent years. In particular, many long-standing conjectures concerning inequalities that are satisfied between certain invariants, such as the number of flats of a given rank, associated to a given matroid, have been resolved. We take a different perspective and consider inequalities between invariants of different matroids. By employing combinatorial and algebraic methods, we prove several results, with our main result being that the flag h-vector is nonincreasing under weak maps.
Event Website:
https://aco.math.cmu.edu/abs-23-24/sep14.html