- Series
- Combinatorics Seminar
- Time
- Friday, April 12, 2024 - 3:15pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Speaker
- Amzi Jeffs – Carnegie Mellon University – amzij@cmu.edu – https://www.math.cmu.edu/~amzij/
- Organizer
- Evelyne Smith-Roberge
How many different ways can we arrange n convex sets in R^d? One answer is provided by counting the number of d-representable complexes on vertex set [n]. We show that there are exp(Theta(n^d log n))-many such complexes, and provide bounds on the constants involved. As a consequence, we show that d-representable complexes comprise a vanishingly small fraction of the class of d-collapsible complexes. In the case d = 1 our results are more precise, and improve the previous best estimate for the number of interval graphs.