Petter Bränden: Strong Rayleigh measures
Tid: Må 2017-02-06 kl 15.15 - 16.15
Plats: Room 3721, Lindstedtsvägen 25. Department of Mathematics, KTH
Medverkande: Petter Bränden (KTH)
Abstract: We give a brief introduction to Strong Rayleigh measures. This is a class of discrete probability measures exhibiting strong negative dependence properties. The measures have recently been used in different settings such as interacting particle systems, the van der Waerden conjecture on permanents, the Kadison-Singer problem and the Traveling Salesman Problem.