Department of Mathematics
Title : Matroid representation over infinite fields
| Speaker: Geoffrey Whittle Affiliation: Victoria University, Wellington Time: 11:00 Monday, 16 April, 2012 Location: To be confirmed |
Abstract
| Whitney introduced matroids as a way of axiomatising the properties of a finite collection of points in a vector space. It is probable that he had vectors over the reals in mind, yet, historically, most attention has focussed on matroids that can be obtained from collections of vectors over finite fields. Indeed there now exist strong theorems for such matroids. By contrast we still know very little about matroids representable over infinite fields and what we do know is mainly negative. The talk will examine this remarkable dichotomy. |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
