Seminar of Algebra

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CANCELADO: A combinatorial model for computing volumes of flow polytope

Speaker:
Carolina Benedetti (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Email:
caro.benedetti@gmail.com
Location:
Departamento de Álgebra
Date:
Mon, 16 mar 2020 11:00
Bio:

Se ha cancelado esta charla.

<-- We introduce new families of combinatorial objects whose enumeration computes volumes of flow polytopes. These objects provide an interpretation, based on parking functions, of Baldoni and Vergne's generalization of a volume formula originally due to Lidskii. We recover known flow polytope volume formulas and prove new volume formulas for flow polytopes that were seemingly unapproachable. A highlight of our model is an elegant formula for the flow polytope of a graph we call the caracol graph. As by-products of our work, we uncover a new triangle of numbers that interpolates between Catalan numbers and the number of parking functions, we prove the log-concavity of rows of this triangle along with other sequences derived from volume computations, and we introduce a new Ehrhart-like polynomial for flow polytope volume and conjecture product formulas for the polytopes we consider. -->