Karim Adiprasito: Cohomology of tropical and combinatorial spaces
Time: Tue 2016-09-13 13.15 - 15.00
Location: Room 3418, Lindstedtsvägen 25, 4th floor, Department of mathematics, KTH
Participating: Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ABSTRACT: Tropical varieties can be thought of as degenerations of algebraic varieties. I will give an introduction to the Chow cohomology and Hodge theory of tropical varieties, and focus especially on two interesting cases: Mikhalkin's smooth tropical varieties and simplicial polytopes.