Alexandre (Sasha) Zotine (Queen's University)
Date
Friday November 12, 202112:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Online via ZoomEvent Category
Curves Seminar
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Time: 12:00 p.m. Place: Online via Zoom (contact Deepanshu Prasad for Zoom link)
Speaker: Alexandre (Sasha) Zotine (Queen's University)
Title: Characteristic Polynomial of Arrangements.
Abstract: In this talk, we'll define the characteristic polynomial, which encodes several interesting invariants of an arrangement in one nice algebraic package. To compute characteristic polynomials, we'll introduce two tools: the Deletion/Restriction property, and Whitney's Theorem.