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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 4:30pm

Yuliy Baryshnikov

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4N30

Stokes sets are formed by the values of parameters for which an asymptotic expansions for (say) oscillating integrals behave discontinuously. These sets form real analytic singular hypersurfaces in the (complex) parameter space. In my talk I will describe the basic combinatorial structures of Stokes (and antiStokes) sets, featuring prominently associahedra and their relatives.