- Series
- Algebra Seminar
- Time
- Monday, January 30, 2023 - 10:20am for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Luke Oeding – Auburn University – oeding@auburn.edu – http://webhome.auburn.edu/~lao0004/
- Organizer
- Abeer Al Ahmadieh
Marcus (1972) and de Oliveira (1982) conjectured bounds on the determinantal range of the sum of a pair of normal matrices with prescribed eigenvalues. We show that this determinantal range is a flattened solid twisted permutahedron, which is, in turn, a finite union of flattened solid twisted hypercubes with prescribed vertices. This complete geometric description, in particular, proves the conjecture. Our techniques are based on classical Lie theory, geometry, and combinatorics. I will give a pre-seminar that will be accessible to 1st year graduate students who like matrices, and provides an easy introduction to the topic. This is joint work with Matt Speck.