Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics - Nathan Pagliaroli

Thursday, March 21, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Title: Colored unstable map enumeration from random noncommutative geometries

Speaker: Nathan Pagliaroli
Affiliation: Western University
Location: MC 5479

There will be a pre-seminar presenting relevant background at the beginning graduate level starting at 1pm.

Abstract: The enumeration of maps originates from a series of works by Tutte in the 1960’s. This work later went on to find uses in physics in the enumeration of Feynman diagrammatic expansions of matrix integrals.

In this talk I will discuss how maps with colored edges glued from 2-cells with one or two boundaries arise in recent work in the construction of path integrals over finite dimensional noncommutative spaces. Explicit formulae for the enumeration of such planar maps can be found by solving generalizations of Tutte’s equations. The generating functions of higher genus maps can also be computed from planar map generating functions using a process called Topological Recursion. This talk is based on joint work with Hamed Hessam and Masoud Khalkhali.