Event Date:
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Event Location:
- 4607B South Hall
Event Price:
Free
Event Contact:
Michael Dougherty
Email: dougherty@math.ucsb.edu
- Discrete Geometry Seminar
Everyone learns in school that the measures of the angles in a euclidean triangle add up to pi. Are there corresponding restrictions on the dihedral angles and/or solid angles in a tetrahedron? In this talk I will describe some basic results on angles in high-dimensional polytopes and the various equations they satisfy. To be able to state these classical results (due to Sommerville and MacMullen) I will also introduce the notion of the incidence algebra of a poset as well as moebius inversion and zeta functions.
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