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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 4:30pm

Adriano Garsia

UC San Diego

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

We give here a combinatorial recipe for proving the so called "n! conjecture" which is now a Theorem proved by M. Haiman by algebraic geometrical methods. It is shown how some simple geometrical properties of trees can yield surprising results in analysis and algebra.