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Algebraic Graph Theory Seminar - William J. Martin
2020-08-31 11:30 (America/Toronto)
TITLE: Scaffolds

Speaker:
William J. Martin

Affiliation:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Zoom:
Contact Soffia Arnadottir

ABSTRACT:

Building on the work of various authors who have used tensors in the
study of association schemes and spin models, I propose the term
"scaffold" for certain tensors that have been represented by what are
sometimes called "star-triangle diagrams" in the literature. The main
goal of the talk is to introduce and motivate these objects which
somewhat resemble partition functions as they appear in combinatorics.
(The exact definition is too cumbersome to include here.)
