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(Eran Nevo) The g-Conjecture III: Algebraic Shifting
This is the third in a series of posts by Eran Nevo on the g-conjecture. Eran’s first post was devoted to the combinatorics of the g-conjecture and was followed by a further post by me on the origin of the g-conjecture. … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Guest blogger, Open problems
Tagged g-conjecture, Shifting
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(Eran Nevo) The g-Conjecture II: The Commutative Algebra Connection
Richard Stanley This post is authored by Eran Nevo. (It is the second in a series of five posts.) The g-conjecture: the commutative algebra connection Let be a triangulation of a -dimensional sphere. Stanley’s idea was to associate with a ring … Continue reading
How the g-Conjecture Came About
This post complements Eran Nevo’s first post on the -conjecture 1) Euler’s theorem Euler Euler’s famous formula for the numbers of vertices, edges and faces of a polytope in space is the starting point of many mathematical stories. (Descartes came close … Continue reading
(Eran Nevo) The g-Conjecture I
This post is authored by Eran Nevo. (It is the first in a series of five posts.) Peter McMullen The g-conjecture What are the possible face numbers of triangulations of spheres? There is only one zero-dimensional sphere and it consists … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Guest blogger, Open problems
Tagged face rings, g-conjecture, Polytopes
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Billerafest
I am unable to attend the conference taking place now at Cornell, but I send my warmest greetings to Lou from Jerusalem. The titles and abstracts of the lectures can be found here. Let me tell you about two theorems by Lou. … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Convex polytopes
Tagged f-vectors, flag vectors, g-conjecture, Lou Billera
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