Laplacians and connections
Speaker: Rick Kenyon
Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2012
Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: PIMS-MPrime Summer School in Probability
Subject: Mathematics, Probability
Class: Scientific
Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2012
Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: PIMS-MPrime Summer School in Probability
Subject: Mathematics, Probability
Class: Scientific
Abstract:
We discuss the Laplacian operator on vector bundles on graphs, in particular relating its determinant to the enumeration of "cycle-rooted spanning forests" which are combinatorial objects generalizing spanning trees.
