семинар Алгебра и логика

На 29 април 2022 г. (петък) от 16:00 ч. ще се проведе дистанционно заседание на семинара по „Алгебра и логика”. Доклад на тема: Images of multilinear polynomials on upper triangular matrices ще изнесе Thiago Castilho de Mello (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil). Резюме. Let f(x1, …, xm) be a polynomial in noncommutative variables over an infinite field K. If A is a K-algebra, it defines in a natural way a map Am → A. If the polynomial f is multilinear, the famous Lvov-Kaplansky conjecture asks whether the image of a multilinear polynomial on a matrix algebra is a vector subspace. Solutions to this problem are known only for n = 2 or m = 2 with partial results for m = 3 and n = 3. In this talk, we survey these results and [...]

На 13 май 2022 г. (петък) от 13:00 ч. ще се проведе дистанционно заседание на семинара по „Алгебра и логика”. Доклад на тема: A counterexample to the modular isomorphism problem ще изнесе Diego García-Lucas (Universidad de Murcia, Spain). Абстракт. The modular isomorphism problem asks whether the isomorphism type of the modular group algebra of a p-group G over a field of characteristic p determines the isomorphism type of G. It was explicitly mentioned in a survey by Richard Brauer in 1963, and was the only classical version of the isomorphism problem for group rings which had resisted a solution, though it received considerable attention. Several partial positive solutions were obtained imposing very strong conditions on the group G, for instance the one of being [...]

На 20 май 2022 г. (петък) от 16:00 ч. ще се проведе дистанционно заседание на семинара по „Алгебра и логика”. Доклад на тема: Bootstrap percolation: merging operations for polytopes ще изнесе Ivailo Hartarsky (Université Paris-Dauhpine, PSL, France, visiting scholar at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Абстракт. Bootstrap percolation is a group of statistical physics models intensively studied since the 1970s in mathematics, physics, computer science, as well as social sciences. They are cellular automata generalising the following paradigmatic example. Arbitrarily declare some sites of Z^2 initially infected. Iteratively, at each discrete-time round, additionally infect each site with at least 2 infected neighbours. The last decade has seen the accomplishment of a full classification of all such models into `universality [...]