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CAGE: Philadelphia Area Combinatorics and Alg. Geometry Seminar

Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 3:00pm

Adrian Tanasa

University of Bordeaux

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C6

In this talk I will introduce Grassmann (or anti-commuting) variables and the axioms of Grassmann-Berezin calculus. I will then show how we can use these Mathematical Physics tools to express Pfaffians and determinants and to derive various non-trivial identities such as the Lindstrom-Gessel-Viennot formula.   In the last part of the talk, I will define a one parameter extension of the skew Schur polynomial, an extension that obeys a natural convolution identity.