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Full-Text Articles in Algebraic Geometry
Explorations In Well-Rounded Lattices, Tanis Nielsen
Explorations In Well-Rounded Lattices, Tanis Nielsen
HMC Senior Theses
Lattices are discrete subgroups of Euclidean spaces. Analogously to vector spaces, they can be described as spans of collections of linearly independent vectors, but with integer (instead of real) coefficients. Lattices have many fascinating geometric properties and numerous applications, and lattice theory is a rich and active field of theoretical work. In this thesis, we present an introduction to the theory of Euclidean lattices, along with an overview of some major unsolved problems, such as sphere packing. We then describe several more specialized topics, including prior work on well-rounded ideal lattices and some preliminary results on the study of planar …
Academic Hats And Ice Cream: Two Optimization Problems, Valery F. Ochkov, Yulia V. Chudova
Academic Hats And Ice Cream: Two Optimization Problems, Valery F. Ochkov, Yulia V. Chudova
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
This article describes the use of computer software to optimize the design of an academic hat and an ice cream cone!
On The Tropicalization Of Lines Onto Tropical Quadrics, Natasha Crepeau
On The Tropicalization Of Lines Onto Tropical Quadrics, Natasha Crepeau
HMC Senior Theses
Tropical geometry uses the minimum and addition operations to consider tropical versions of the curves, surfaces, and more generally the zero set of polynomials, called varieties, that are the objects of study in classical algebraic geometry. One known result in classical geometry is that smooth quadric surfaces in three-dimensional projective space, $\mathbb{P}^3$, are doubly ruled, and those rulings form a disjoint union of conics in $\mathbb{P}^5$. We wish to see if the same result holds for smooth tropical quadrics. We use the Fundamental Theorem of Tropical Algebraic Geometry to outline an approach to studying how lines lift onto a tropical …
Towards Tropical Psi Classes, Jawahar Madan
Towards Tropical Psi Classes, Jawahar Madan
HMC Senior Theses
To help the interested reader get their initial bearings, I present a survey of prerequisite topics for understanding the budding field of tropical Gromov-Witten theory. These include the language and methods of enumerative geometry, an introduction to tropical geometry and its relation to classical geometry, an exposition of toric varieties and their correspondence to polyhedral fans, an intuitive picture of bundles and Euler classes, and finally an introduction to the moduli spaces of n-pointed stable rational curves and their tropical counterparts.
Pascal's Mystic Hexagon In Tropical Geometry, Hanna Hoffman
Pascal's Mystic Hexagon In Tropical Geometry, Hanna Hoffman
HMC Senior Theses
Pascal's mystic hexagon is a theorem from projective geometry. Given six points in the projective plane, we can construct three points by extending opposite sides of the hexagon. These three points are collinear if and only if the six original points lie on a nondegenerate conic. We attempt to prove this theorem in the tropical plane.
Dense Geometry Of Music And Visual Arts: Vanishing Points, Continuous Tonnetz, And Theremin Performance, Maria Mannone, Irene Iaccarino, Rosanna Iembo
Dense Geometry Of Music And Visual Arts: Vanishing Points, Continuous Tonnetz, And Theremin Performance, Maria Mannone, Irene Iaccarino, Rosanna Iembo
The STEAM Journal
The dualism between continuous and discrete is relevant in music theory as well as in performance practice of musical instruments. Geometry has been used since longtime to represent relationships between notes and chords in tonal system. Moreover, in the field of mathematics itself, it has been shown that the continuity of real numbers can arise from geometrical observations and reasoning. Here, we consider a geometrical approach to generalize representations used in music theory introducing continuous pitch. Such a theoretical framework can be applied to instrument playing where continuous pitch can be naturally performed. Geometry and visual representations of concepts of …
On The Landscape Of Random Tropical Polynomials, Christopher Hoyt
On The Landscape Of Random Tropical Polynomials, Christopher Hoyt
HMC Senior Theses
Tropical polynomials are similar to classical polynomials, however addition and multiplication are replaced with tropical addition (minimums) and tropical multiplication (addition). Within this new construction, polynomials become piecewise linear curves with interesting behavior. All tropical polynomials are piecewise linear curves, and each linear component uniquely corresponds to a particular monomial. In addition, certain monomial in the tropical polynomial can be trivial due to the fact that tropical addition is the minimum operator. Therefore, it makes sense to consider a graph of connectivity of the monomials for any given tropical polynomial. We investigate tropical polynomials where all coefficients are chosen from …
An Incidence Approach To The Distinct Distances Problem, Bryce Mclaughlin
An Incidence Approach To The Distinct Distances Problem, Bryce Mclaughlin
HMC Senior Theses
In 1946, Erdös posed the distinct distances problem, which asks for the minimum number of distinct distances that any set of n points in the real plane must realize. Erdös showed that any point set must realize at least &Omega(n1/2) distances, but could only provide a construction which offered &Omega(n/&radic(log(n)))$ distances. He conjectured that the actual minimum number of distances was &Omega(n1-&epsilon) for any &epsilon > 0, but that sublinear constructions were possible. This lower bound has been improved over the years, but Erdös' conjecture seemed to hold until in 2010 Larry Guth and Nets Hawk Katz …
Descartes Comes Out Of The Closet, Nora E. Culik
Descartes Comes Out Of The Closet, Nora E. Culik
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
While “Descartes Comes Out of the Closet” is ostensibly about a young woman’s journey to Paris, the descriptive detail borrows language and images from Cartesian coordinate geometry, dualistic philosophy, neuroanatomy (the pineal), and projections of three dimensions onto planes. This mathematical universe is counterpointed in the natural language of the suppressed love story that locates the real in the human. Thus, at the heart of the story is the tension between competing notions of mathematics, i.e., as either an independent realm apart from history or as a culturally produced and historical set of practices. Of course, the central character proves …
Random Tropical Curves, Magda L. Hlavacek
Random Tropical Curves, Magda L. Hlavacek
HMC Senior Theses
In the setting of tropical mathematics, geometric objects are rich with inherent combinatorial structure. For example, each polynomial $p(x,y)$ in the tropical setting corresponds to a tropical curve; these tropical curves correspond to unbounded graphs embedded in $\R^2$. Each of these graphs is dual to a particular subdivision of its Newton polytope; we classify tropical curves by combinatorial type based on these corresponding subdivisions. In this thesis, we aim to gain an understanding of the likeliness of the combinatorial type of a randomly chosen tropical curve by using methods from polytope geometry. We focus on tropical curves corresponding to quadratics, …
Tropical Derivation Of Cohomology Ring Of Heavy/Light Hassett Spaces, Shiyue Li
Tropical Derivation Of Cohomology Ring Of Heavy/Light Hassett Spaces, Shiyue Li
HMC Senior Theses
The cohomology of moduli spaces of curves has been extensively studied in classical algebraic geometry. The emergent field of tropical geometry gives new views and combinatorial tools for treating these classical problems. In particular, we study the cohomology of heavy/light Hassett spaces, moduli spaces of heavy/light weighted stable curves, denoted as $\calm_{g, w}$ for a particular genus $g$ and a weight vector $w \in (0, 1]^n$ using tropical geometry. We survey and build on the work of \citet{Cavalieri2014}, which proved that tropical compactification is a \textit{wonderful} compactification of the complement of hyperplane arrangement for these heavy/light Hassett spaces. For $g …
Adinkras And Arithmetical Graphs, Madeleine Weinstein
Adinkras And Arithmetical Graphs, Madeleine Weinstein
HMC Senior Theses
Adinkras and arithmetical graphs have divergent origins. In the spirit of Feynman diagrams, adinkras encode representations of supersymmetry algebras as graphs with additional structures. Arithmetical graphs, on the other hand, arise in algebraic geometry, and give an arithmetical structure to a graph. In this thesis, we will interpret adinkras as arithmetical graphs and see what can be learned.
Our work consists of three main strands. First, we investigate arithmetical structures on the underlying graph of an adinkra in the specific case where the underlying graph is a hypercube. We classify all such arithmetical structures and compute some of the corresponding …
Convexity Of Neural Codes, Robert Amzi Jeffs
Convexity Of Neural Codes, Robert Amzi Jeffs
HMC Senior Theses
An important task in neuroscience is stimulus reconstruction: given activity in the brain, what stimulus could have caused it? We build on previous literature which uses neural codes to approach this problem mathematically. A neural code is a collection of binary vectors that record concurrent firing of neurons in the brain. We consider neural codes arising from place cells, which are neurons that track an animal's position in space. We examine algebraic objects associated to neural codes, and completely characterize a certain class of maps between these objects. Furthermore, we show that such maps have natural geometric implications related to …
Arithmetical Graphs, Riemann-Roch Structure For Lattices, And The Frobenius Number Problem, Jeremy Usatine
Arithmetical Graphs, Riemann-Roch Structure For Lattices, And The Frobenius Number Problem, Jeremy Usatine
HMC Senior Theses
If R is a list of positive integers with greatest common denominator equal to 1, calculating the Frobenius number of R is in general NP-hard. Dino Lorenzini defines the arithmetical graph, which naturally arises in arithmetic geometry, and a notion of genus, the g-number, that in specific cases coincides with the Frobenius number of R. A result of Dino Lorenzini's gives a method for quickly calculating upper bounds for the g-number of arithmetical graphs. We discuss the arithmetic geometry related to arithmetical graphs and present an example of an arithmetical graph that arises in this context. We also discuss the …
Chip Firing Games And Riemann-Roch Properties For Directed Graphs, Joshua Z. Gaslowitz
Chip Firing Games And Riemann-Roch Properties For Directed Graphs, Joshua Z. Gaslowitz
HMC Senior Theses
The following presents a brief introduction to tropical geometry, especially tropical curves, and explains a connection to graph theory. We also give a brief summary of the Riemann-Roch property for graphs, established by Baker and Norine (2007), as well as the tools used in their proof. Various generalizations are described, including a more thorough description of the extension to strongly connected directed graphs by Asadi and Backman (2011). Building from their constructions, an algorithm to determine if a directed graph has Row Riemann-Roch Property is given and thoroughly explained.
On Toric Symmetry Of P1 X P2, Olivia D. Beckwith
On Toric Symmetry Of P1 X P2, Olivia D. Beckwith
HMC Senior Theses
Toric varieties are a class of geometric objects with a combinatorial structure encoded in polytopes. P1 x P2 is a well known variety and its polytope is the triangular prism. Studying the symmetries of the triangular prism and its truncations can lead to symmetries of the variety. Many of these symmetries permute the elements of the cohomology ring nontrivially and induce nontrivial relations. We discuss some toric symmetries of P1 x P2, and describe the geometry of the polytope of the corresponding blowups, and analyze the induced action on the cohomology ring. We exhaustively compute the toric symmetries of P1 …
Propeller, Joel Kahn
Propeller, Joel Kahn
The STEAM Journal
This image is based on several different algorithms interconnected within a single program in the language BASIC-256. The fundamental structure involves a tightly wound spiral working outwards from the center of the image. As the spiral is drawn, different values of red, green and blue are modified through separate but related processes, producing the changing appearance. Algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and analytic geometry are all utilized in overlapping ways within the program. As with many works of algorithmic art, small changes in the program can produce dramatic alterations of the visual output, which makes lots of variations possible.
Applications Of Convex And Algebraic Geometry To Graphs And Polytopes, Mohamed Omar
Applications Of Convex And Algebraic Geometry To Graphs And Polytopes, Mohamed Omar
All HMC Faculty Publications and Research
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Strong Nonnegativity And Sums Of Squares On Real Varieties, Mohamed Omar, Brian Osserman
Strong Nonnegativity And Sums Of Squares On Real Varieties, Mohamed Omar, Brian Osserman
All HMC Faculty Publications and Research
Motivated by scheme theory, we introduce strong nonnegativity on real varieties, which has the property that a sum of squares is strongly nonnegative. We show that this algebraic property is equivalent to nonnegativity for nonsingular real varieties. Moreover, for singular varieties, we reprove and generalize obstructions of Gouveia and Netzer to the convergence of the theta body hierarchy of convex bodies approximating the convex hull of a real variety.
Complete Graphs Whose Topological Symmetry Groups Are Polyhedral, Erica Flapan, Blake Mellor, Ramin Naimi
Complete Graphs Whose Topological Symmetry Groups Are Polyhedral, Erica Flapan, Blake Mellor, Ramin Naimi
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
We determine for which m the complete graph Km has an embedding in S3 whose topological symmetry group is isomorphic to one of the polyhedral groupsA4, A5 or S4.
Recognizing Graph Theoretic Properties With Polynomial Ideals, Jesus A. De Loera, Christopher J. Hillar, Peter N. Malkin, Mohamed Omar
Recognizing Graph Theoretic Properties With Polynomial Ideals, Jesus A. De Loera, Christopher J. Hillar, Peter N. Malkin, Mohamed Omar
All HMC Faculty Publications and Research
Many hard combinatorial problems can be modeled by a system of polynomial equations. N. Alon coined the term polynomial method to describe the use of nonlinear polynomials when solving combinatorial problems. We continue the exploration of the polynomial method and show how the algorithmic theory of polynomial ideals can be used to detect k-colorability, unique Hamiltonicity, and automorphism rigidity of graphs. Our techniques are diverse and involve Nullstellensatz certificates, linear algebra over finite fields, Gröbner bases, toric algebra, convex programming, and real algebraic geometry.
The Local Gromov–Witten Invariants Of Configurations Of Rational Curves, Dagan Karp, Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Marcos Mariño
The Local Gromov–Witten Invariants Of Configurations Of Rational Curves, Dagan Karp, Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Marcos Mariño
All HMC Faculty Publications and Research
We compute the local Gromov–Witten invariants of certain configurations of rational curves in a Calabi–Yau threefold. These configurations are connected subcurves of the “minimal trivalent configuration”, which is a particular tree of ℙ1’s with specified formal neighborhood. We show that these local invariants are equal to certain global or ordinary Gromov–Witten invariants of a blowup of ℙ3 at points, and we compute these ordinary invariants using the geometry of the Cremona transform. We also realize the configurations in question as formal toric schemes and compute their formal Gromov–Witten invariants using the mathematical and physical theories of the …
Intrinsic Linking And Knotting Of Graphs In Arbitrary 3–Manifolds, Erica Flapan, Hugh Howards, Don Lawrence, Blake Mellor
Intrinsic Linking And Knotting Of Graphs In Arbitrary 3–Manifolds, Erica Flapan, Hugh Howards, Don Lawrence, Blake Mellor
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
We prove that a graph is intrinsically linked in an arbitrary 3–manifold M if and only if it is intrinsically linked in S3. Also, assuming the Poincaré Conjecture, we prove that a graph is intrinsically knotted in M if and only if it is intrinsically knotted in S3.
A Constructive Proof Of Ky Fan's Generalization Of Tucker's Lemma, Timothy Prescott '02, Francis E. Su
A Constructive Proof Of Ky Fan's Generalization Of Tucker's Lemma, Timothy Prescott '02, Francis E. Su
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We present a proof of Ky Fan's combinatorial lemma on labellings of triangulated spheres that differs from earlier proofs in that it is constructive. We slightly generalize the hypotheses of Fan's lemma to allow for triangulations of Sn that contain a flag of hemispheres. As a consequence, we can obtain a constructive proof of Tucker's lemma that holds for a more general class of triangulations than the usual version.
The Closed Topological Vertex Via The Cremona Transform, Jim Bryan, Dagan Karp
The Closed Topological Vertex Via The Cremona Transform, Jim Bryan, Dagan Karp
All HMC Faculty Publications and Research
We compute the local Gromov-Witten invariants of the "closed vertex", that is, a configuration of three rational curves meeting in a single triple point in a Calabi-Yau threefold. The method is to express the local invariants of the vertex in terms of ordinary Gromov-Witten invariants of a certain blowup of CP^3 and then to compute those invariants via the geometry of the Cremona transformation.
Consensus-Halving Via Theorems Of Borsuk-Ulam And Tucker, Forrest W. Simmons, Francis E. Su
Consensus-Halving Via Theorems Of Borsuk-Ulam And Tucker, Forrest W. Simmons, Francis E. Su
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In this paper we show how theorems of Borsuk-Ulam and Tucker can be used to construct a consensus-halving: a division of an object into two portions so that each of n people believes the portions are equal. Moreover, the division takes at most n cuts, which is best possible. This extends prior work using methods from combinatorial topology to solve fair division problems. Several applications of consensus-halving are discussed.
Intrinsic Knotting And Linking Of Complete Graphs, Erica Flapan
Intrinsic Knotting And Linking Of Complete Graphs, Erica Flapan
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
We show that for every m∈N, there exists an n∈N such that every embedding of the complete graph Kn in R3 contains a link of two components whose linking number is at least m. Furthermore, there exists an r∈N such that every embedding of Kr in R3 contains a knot Q with |a2(Q)| ≥ m, where a2(Q) denotes the second coefficient of the Conway polynomial of Q.