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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ezra Miller , Victor Reiner , Bernd SturmfelsPublisher: American Mathematical Society Imprint: American Mathematical Society Edition: illustrated edition Volume: No. 13 Dimensions: Width: 18.50cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 25.90cm Weight: 1.380kg ISBN: 9780821837368ISBN 10: 0821837362 Pages: 691 Publication Date: 30 October 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsWhat is geometric combinatorics?-An overview of the graduate summer school Bibliography A. Barvinok, Lattice points, polyhedra, and complexity: Introduction Inspirational examples. Valuations Identities in the algebra of polyhedra Generating functions and cones. Continued fractions Rational polyhedra and rational functions Computing generating functions fast Bibliography S. Fomin and N. Reading, Root systems and generalized associahedra: Introduction Reflections and roots Dynkin diagrams and Coxeter groups Associahedra and mutations Cluster algebras Enumerative problems Bibliography R. Forman, Topics in combinatorial differential topology and geometry: Introduction Discrete Morse theory Discrete Morse theory, continued Discrete Morse theory and evasiveness The Charney-Davis conjectures From analysis to combinatorics Bibliography M. Haiman and A. Woo, Geometry of $q$ and $q,t$-analogs in combinatorial enumeration: Introduction Kostka numbers and $q$-analogs Catalan numbers, trees, Lagrange inversion, and their $q$-analogs Macdonald polynomials Connecting Macdonald polynomials and $q$-Lagrange inversion; $(q,t)$-analogs Positivity and combinatorics? Bibliography D. N. Kozlov, Chromatic numbers, morphism complexes, and Stiefel-Whitney characteristic classes: Preamble Introduction The functor Hom$(-,-)$ Stiefel-Whitney classes and first applications The spectral sequence approach The proof of the Lovasz conjecture Summary and outlook Bibliography R. MacPherson, Equivariant invariants and linear geometry: Introduction Equivariant homology and intersection homology (Geometry of pseudomanifolds) Moment graphs (Geometry of orbits) The cohomology of a linear graph (Polynomial and linear geometry) Computing intersection homology (Polynomial and linear geometry II) Cohomology as functions on a variety (Geometry of subspace arrangements) Bibliography R. P. Stanley, An introduction to hyperplane arrangements: Basic definitions, the intersection poset and the characteristic polynomial Properties of the intersection poset and graphical arrangements Matroids and geometric lattices Broken circuits, modular elements, and supersolvability Finite fields Separating hyperplanes Bibliography M. L. Wachs, Poset topology: Tools and applications: Introduction Basic definitions, results, and examples Group actions on posets Shellability and edge labelings Recursive techniques Poset operations and maps Bibliography G. M. Ziegler, Convex polytopes: Extremal constructions and $f$-vector shapes: Introduction Constructing 3-dimensional polytopes Shapes of $f$-vectors 2-simple 2-simplicial 4-polytopes $f$-vectors of 4-polytopes Projected products of polygons A short introduction to polymake Bibliography.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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