Cayley-Bacharach Relations and Sums of Squares

Series
Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Time
Monday, November 11, 2019 - 1:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 254
Speaker
Kevin Shu – Georgia Tech (grad student) – kshu8@gatech.edu – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~kshu8/
Organizer
Trevor Gunn

This talk is based on a paper by Grigoriy Blekherman. In most cases, nonnegative polynomials differ from positive polynomials. We will discuss precisely what equations cause these differences, and relate them to the well known Cayley-Bacharach theorem for low degree polynomials.