Speaker:  Chi Ho Yuen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Geometric Bijections Between Spanning Trees and Break Divisors
Time: 2:30 PM, Monday, April 13
Place:  Malott 206

Abstract: The Jacobian group Jac(G) of a finite graph G is a group whose cardinality is the number of spanning trees of G. G also has a tropical Jacobian which has the structure of a real torus; using the notion of break divisors, one can obtain a polyhedral decomposition of the tropical Jacobian where vertices and cells correspond to the elements of Jac(G) and the spanning trees of G respectively. In this talk I will give a combinatorial description to bijections coming from this geometric setting, I will also show some previously known bijections can be related to these geometric bijections. This is joint work with Matthew Baker.


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