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Title: A Note on Isomorphism of Directed Graphs Speaker: Nataša Jonoska Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
We associate one-out graphs, called skeletons, with directed graphs (with loops, without parallel edges). We give necessary and sufficient conditions for two one-out graphs to be skeletons of isomorphic graphs. This observation is applied to a formal model of reaction systems to characterize reaction systems with isomorphic dynamics.
Title: A Topological Version of the State Sum Knot Invariant Speaker: W. Edwin Clark Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
This is joint work with Masahico Saito growing out of work with Larry Dunning on the computation of the state sum invariant for knots. The state sum invariant (also known as the 2-cocycle invariant) was defined 17 years ago in a paper by Scott Carter, Dan Jelsovsky, Seiichi Kamada, Laurel Langford and Masahico Saito, https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9903135, for finite quandles using “2-cocycles” with values in a finite abelian group. Recently with Dunning and Saito we showed how to compute many state sum invariants of knots without explicitly finding the corresponding 2-cocycles. Using this idea we are able to generalize the state sum invariant from finite quandles with 2-cocycle values in a finite abelian group to topological quandles with 2-cocycle values in a topological group. I will discuss examples based on a family of quandles \({Q(θ):θ2(0,2π]}\) based on conjugacy classes of \(\mathrm{SO}(3)\) and \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\).
Title: Probabilistic algorithms for intractable deterministic problems Speaker: Razvan Teodorescu Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
Starting from a typical example of intractable problem, I will introduce and discuss a class of probabilistic algorithms which can provide surrogate solutions in polynomial time, and with error bounds decreasing with the input size. For certain problems, it is proven that the surrogate solutions converge to the actual solution, as the input size goes to infinity. The main result is a criterion for selecting the right class of algorithms for a specific problem.
Title: Lamplighter groups and (bi)reversible automata from affine transformations of the ring of formal power series Speaker: Dmytro Savchuk Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
The ring \(\mathbb{Z}_p[[t]]\) of formal power series over \(\mathbb{Z}_p\) can be naturally identified with the boundary of \(p\)-ary rooted tree \(T_p\). For each \(a(t), b(t)\in\mathbb{Z}_p[[t]]\) with \(b(t)\) being a unit, we consider the affine transformations of \(\mathbb{Z}_p[[t]]\) defined by \(f(t)\mapsto a(t)+f(t)\cdot b(t)\). This transformation defines automorphisms of \(T_p\) that can be explicitly described by an automaton that is finite if and only if both \(a(t)\) and \(b(t)\) are rational power series.
We prove that the multiplication by a power series corresponding to a rational function \(p(t)/q(t)\in\mathbb{Z}_p[[t]]\) is defined by a finite automaton that is reversible if and only if \(\deg p\le\deg q\) and \(q\) divides \(x^{n-1}\) for some \(n\). In particular, we obtain a family of bireversible automata in this way, which covers several examples that were studied earlier. We also describe algebraic structure of corresponding self-similar groups generated by such automata and show that they are isomorphic to lamplighter groups of various ranks.
This is a joint result with Ievgen Bondarenko.
Title: Cellular Automaton Simulations Using a 2D DNA Origami Array Speaker: Daniel Cruz Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
We discuss and build upon the results presented in Molecular Ping-Pong Game of Life on a 2D DNA Origami Array by Jonoska and Seeman. In particular, we present the theoretical model discussed in this publication and its algorithmic possibilities. We also present the example of a Game of Like-like system and discuss the simulation of 1D elementary cellular automata.
Title: A pants decomposition algorithm on triangulated meshes Speaker: Mustafa Hajij Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
A pair of pants is a genus zero orientable surface with three boundary components. A pants decomposition of a surface is a finite collection of unordered pairwise disjoint simple closed curves embedded in the surface that decompose the surface into pants. In this talk I will present a Morse theory based algorithm for pants decomposition of a triangulated surface mesh.
Title: The Discrete Mathematics Graduate Curriculum Speaker: Brian Curtin Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
That means algebra, combinatorics, number theory, logic, theoretical computer science, and topology. All interested people are invited.
No seminar this week.
Title: How to color knots quickly while staying within the rules Speaker: Larry Dunning, Professor Emeritus Bowling Green State University Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
There have been several generations of knot coloring programs at USF (predating the recent resurgence of adult coloring books).
The tools available in systems such as Maple, GAP, and Prover9/Mace4 have advantages; however, beginning with Tim Yeatman's programs, the C programming language has been used to provide faster computation. These programs have produced colorings based on the braid representation of knots using quandles of increasing sizes.
We will look at the considerations based on data representation, algorithm refinements, and on knot theory that have been used to significantly increase the speed of these C computations.
If time permits, the recent use of these programs to color 1-tangles will be covered.
Title: Bieberbach's Third, Second Movement Speaker: Greg McColm Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
Part of Hilbert's 18th problem was (in modern terms) whether it was true that for every dimension \(d\), there were only finitely many isomorphism classes of \(d\)-dimensional crystallographic groups. Over a decade later, Felix Klein's student Ludwig Bieberbach proved that the answer was yes.
In this, the final installment of the proof of Bieberbach's theorem(s), we first review the previous three parts (for people who missed the previous three episodes) and then present what appears to be the most popular proof of the last part — sans the usual cohomology.
Title: Bieberbach's Third, First Movement Speaker: Greg McColm Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109
The affirmative answer came in three theorems, and the first two theorems — that every \(d\)-dimensional crystallographic group has a \(d\)-dimensional lattice subgroup of finite index, and that any two isomorphism crystallographic groups are affine conjugates — were covered last spring. This week and next week we cover the third theorem (that Hilbert was right) in two parts:
Title: Organizational Meeting Speaker: Greg McColm Time: 2:00pm‐2:50pm Place: CMC 109