Pure Maths Colloquium: Alex Fink
This talk is part of the Pure Maths Colloquium at the University of St Andrews. Check out our upcoming talks at https://theran.lt/pure-colloquium/.
| Where: | Lecture Theatre D |
| When: | Feb 14 2019 @ 16.00 | Video: | Not recorded |
| Speaker: | Alex Fink Queen Mary University of London |
| Title: | Matroids over rings |
Many combinatorial problems call for an object a little bit more informative than a matroid to capture all the relevant information. In the topology of torus arrangements, e.g., this extra information is of arithmetic flavour. I’ll introduce the object Luca Moci and I defined to answer this call – matroids (of modules) over rings, the ring in this case being Z – and then show how their structure relates to better-known matroid generalisations, in particular the valuated matroids of Dress and Wenzel.