Abstracts for the Seminar
 Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics
Spring 2008

Speaker:  Volkmar Welker, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Title:   Golod rings and complements of coordinate subspace arrangements
Time: 4:45 PM, Monday, March 10, 2008
Place:  Malott 205

Abstract:
  Coordinate subspace arrangements are finite collections $\{ H_{A_1}, \ldots, H_{A_r} \}$ of linear subspaces $H_A$ defined by equations $x_i = 0$ for $i \in A$.  Thus coordinate subspace arrangements and simplicial complexes are in one-to-one correspondence. It is well known by joint work with Gasharov and Peeva and later results by Buchstaber and Panov that homological invariants of the Stanley-Reisner ring of a simplicial complex and of the corresponding subspace arrangement are closely related.  Here we study implications of the Golod-property of the Stanley-Reisner ring on the complement of the arrangement.

March 1, 2008