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Hilbert functions of graded rings

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: Maya Ahmed, UC Davis
Location: 693 Kerr
Start time: Wed, Jan 23 2002, 12:00PM

In this talk I will sketch an algebraic technique to enumerate nonnegative integer solutions of a linear system of equations. The main tools involved are the Hilbert poincare series and Hilbert functions which I will define. Magic squares are nxn matrices for which the row, column and diagonal sums are the same and I will show how the above method is used with the example of enumerating magic squares.