NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

Ph. D. Dissertation Defense


Ahmet Seven


Combinatorial aspects of double Bruhat cells and cluster algebras


Thursday, July 22, 2004

3:00-4:00pm

Room 511, Lake Hall

 


Abstract:   In this thesis, we compute orbits for the linear action of groups generated by transvections with respect to a certain class of bilinear forms on a finite dimensional vector space over the two-element field. In particular, we give an explicit description of orbits that are in bijection with connected components of an arbitray real double Bruhat cell in a semisimple group, extending results of M.Gekhtman, B. Shapiro, M. Shapiro, A.Vainshtein and A. Zelevinsky. We also compute the list of all minimal 2-infinite diagrams, which are cluster algebraic analogues of extended Dynkin graphs.



Dissertation Defense Committee

Professor Alexander Postnikov MIT
Professor Egon Schulte Northeastern University
Professor Jerzy Weyman Northeastern University
Professor Andrei Zelevinsky, Thesis Advisor Northeastern University


Ph.D. Thesis Defenses Page by:  Prof. Alex Suciu
Graduate Program in Mathematics Posted:   July 11, 2004
Department of Mathematics Comments to:  a.suciu@neu.edu
Northeastern University URL:   http://www.math.neu.edu/defenses/thesis.seven.html