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Toric Hilbert schemes

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: Francisco Santos, Univ.Cantabria, UC Davis and MSRI
Location: 693 Kerr
Start time: Wed, Jan 30 2002, 12:00PM

I will define the toric Hilbert scheme associated to an integer point configuration, show its relation to the space of triangulations of the point configuration and (time permitting) sketch a construction of a point set whose toric Hilbert scheme is disconnected.

This talk is related to the ones by Maya Ahmed (January 23, 2002) and Francisco Santos (October 17, 2001) in the pure graduate seminar. I will try to keep it self-contained, but having attended those talks will facilitate understanding this one.