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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 3:10pm

Ron Umble

Millersville U

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

We define a diagonal on the permutahedra {P_n} in terms of some simple straight-forward combinatorial operations. Subsequently, the diagonal on the associahedra {K_n} is easily obtained by applying Tonks' cellular projection P_n --> K_{n+1}. We conclude with a brief introduction to permutahedral sets and the definition of singular permutahedral chains on a space.