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Commutative Algebra Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Nov 16, 2021

Time: 2:00PM

Location: LCB 222


Vaibhav Pandey

University of Utah

Title

Are natural embeddings of determinantal rings split?

Abstract

Over an infinite field, a generic determinantal ring is the fixed subring of an action of the general linear group on a polynomial ring; this is the natural embedding of the title. If the field has characteristic zero, the general linear group is linearly reductive, and it follows that the invariant ring is a split subring of the polynomial ring. We determine if the natural embedding is split in the case of a field of positive characteristic. Time permitting, we will address the corresponding question for Pfaffian and symmetric determinantal rings. This is ongoing work with Mel Hochster, Jack Jeffries, and Anurag Singh.

Commutative Algebra

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