School of Mathematics Colloquium
Pfaffian representations of quintics
by Prof. Mohan Kumar (Washington University, USA)
Thursday, May 10, 2012
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG-69 )
at Colaba Campus ( AG-69 )
Description |
It is known that a general quintic (homogeneous form of degree five) in five variables can be expressed as the Pfaffian of a skew-symmetric matrix in only finitely many ways upto equivalence. I will discuss attempts at finding this number. This is joint work with A. Prabhakar Rao. |