Richard P. Stanley Seminar in Combinatorics: Derived categories of the permutahedra varieties
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT COMBINATORICS
When: April 3, 2024
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Where: Science Center 232
Speaker: Mario Sanchez - Cornell
The derived category of a variety is an important and difficult invariant. In this talk, I discuss a purely convex-geometric and combinatorial approach to these categories for toric varieties. Along the way, we will run into the curious question of studying the contractibility of set differences of polytopes. I will focus on the toric variety of the permutahedron which has played an important role in many recent developments in matroid theory. I will discuss how this derived category can be described through the theory of matroids.
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