# Sergey Avvakumov “A subexponential size RP^n” | Big Seminar

December 17, 2020
19.00 MSK (UTC +3)

# Sergey Avvakumov «A subexponential size ${\mathbb R}P^n$»

Sergey Avvakumov from University of Copenhagen will give the talk «A subexponential size ${\mathbb R}P^n$» on the labs' Big Seminar.

The talk will be held in zoom
Meeting ID: 279-059-822
Password: first 6 decimal places of $\pi$ after the decimal point

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Abstract:

A practical way to encode a manifold is to triangulate it. Among all possible triangulations it makes sense to look for the minimal one, which for the purpose of this talk means using the least number of vertices.

Consider now a family of manifolds such as $S^n$, ${\mathbb R}P^n$, $SO_n$, etc. A natural question is how the size of the minimal triangulation depends on $n$? Surprisingly, except for the trivial case of $S^n$, our best lower and upper bounds are very far apart.

For ${\mathbb R}P^n$ the current best lower and upper bounds are around $n^2$ and $\phi^n$, respectively, where $\phi$ is the golden ratio. In this talk I will present the first triangulation of ${\mathbb R}P^n$ with a subexponential, $e^{(\frac{1}{2}+o(1))\sqrt{n}{\log n}}$, number of vertices. I will also state several open problems related to the topic.

This is a joint work with Karim Adiprasito and Roman Karasev.

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Everyone is invited to attend. The language of the lecture is English. The event is aimed at master and graduate students, as well as researchers in the field of combinatorics.