For more information about this meeting, contact Barbara Baum.
| Title: | Elementary proofs of various facts about 3-cores |
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| Seminar: | Combinatorics/Partitions Seminar |
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| Speaker: | Dr. James Sellers, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University |
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| Abstract: |
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| A t-core of the positive integer n is a partition of n in which none of the hook numbers are divisible by t. Various people have studied t-core partitions over the last few decades thanks, in part, to their connections to representation theory. I will begin the talk by sharing some of the history of arithmetic results related to t-cores for several values of t. I will then spend the remaining time discussing very recent work with Mike Hirschhorn (University of New South Wales) in which we proved various properties of 3-cores via truly elementary techniques. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB106 |
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| Date: | 03 / 03 / 2009 |
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| Time: | 11:15am - 12:05pm |
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