Seminar series
Date
Mon, 18 Nov 2024
15:30
15:30
Location
L5
Speaker
Nicholas Proudfoot
Organisation
University of Oregon
June Huh proved in 2012 that the Betti numbers of the complement of a complex hyperplane arrangement form a log concave sequence. But what if the arrangement has symmetries, and we regard the cohomology as a representation of the symmetry group? The motivating example is the braid arrangement, where the complement is the configuration space of n points in the plane, and the symmetric group acts by permuting the points. I will present an equivariant log concavity conjecture, and show that one can use representation stability to prove infinitely many cases of this conjecture for configuration spaces.