Extremal Combinatorics, Real Algebraic Geometry and Undecidability

Series
Algebra Seminar
Time
Monday, October 31, 2022 - 1:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Clough 125 Classroom
Speaker
Greg Blekherman – Georgia Institute of Technology – greg@math.gatech.eduhttps://math.gatech.edu/people/greg-blekherman
Organizer
Papri Dey

I will highlight recent interplay between problems in extremal combinatorics and real algebraic geometry. This sheds a new light on undecidability of graph homomorphism density inequalities in extremal combinatorics, trace inequalities in linear algebra, and symmetric polynomial inequalities in real algebraic geometry. All of the necessary notions will be introduced in the talk. Joint work with Jose Acevedo, Sebastian Debus and Cordian Riener.