Events
Hurwitz’s factorization count and its deformations
Professor Victor Reiner
University of Minnesota
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~reiner/
When
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Abstract: In 1891, A. Hurwitz reduced a topological question to a counting problem: In how many ways can one factor an n-cycle into n-1 transpositions? His answer, n^{n-2}, has many proofs. We will discuss one of them, and then describe some deformations of Hurwitz’s formula where a parameter q is added to the mix.
*All talks will be held virtually through Zoom. Please contact math_sci@uncg.edu for talk links.*
