GASC Seminar

 
Algebras associated to directed graphs and related to factorizations of noncommutative polynomials

 

Vladimir Retakh

Rutgers University
 
 

Northeastern University

Monday, April 3, 2006

 

Talk at 1:30 p.m. in 509 Lake Hall


 

Abstract:    A polynomial in one variable over a noncommutative algebra may have a lot of different factorizations into a product of linear factors. The structure of such factorizations can be rather complicated and the associated Êsubalgebra of pseudo-roots of the polynomial seems to be very interesting. One way to describe the situation is to study the directed graph of the right divisors of the polynomial. In this talk we present a "universal" approach to this problem. We introduce and study a wide class of algebras associated to directed graphs and universal polynomials over these algebras. We show that for many graphs such algebras are Koszul and compute their Hilbert series. The talk is based on joint papers with I. Gelfand, S. Serconek and R. Wilson.



Here are some directions to Northeastern University. Lake Hall can be best accessed from the entrance on the corner of Greenleaf Street and Leon Street.



GASC Seminar Home Page Posted: March 6, 2006.   Comments to:  marc@neu.edu  
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