UW Combinatorics Seminar

Title: Realizing subword complexes via triangulations of root polytopes

Karola Mészáros

Monday November 9, 4:00pm-5:10pm
Lowe 217

ABSTRACT

Seminar is on Monday in Lowe 217 at 4:00pm-5:10pm.
There is no pre-seminar.

Subword complexes are simplicial complexes introduced by Knutson and Miller to illustrate the combinatorics of Schubert polynomials and determinantal ideals. They proved that any subword complex is homeomorphic to a ball or a sphere and asked about their geometric realizations. We show that a family of subword complexes can be realized geometrically via triangulations of root polytopes. This implies that a family of $beta$-Grothendieck polynomials are special cases of reduced forms in the subdivision algebra of root polytopes. Based on joint work with Laura Escobar. 



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