Speaker:
Adam Boocher
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Institution:
University of San Diego
Time:
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
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Location:
RH 440R
Let M be a graded module over a polynomial ring. It is natural to count the number of generators and relations of M, and these two numbers are the first in a sequence of "betti numbers" for the module. In this talk I'll describe what the betti numbers are and how they encode in a sense the complexity of M. I'll discuss conjectured lower bounds and some recent work establishing these bounds in certain cases.