Inequalities on eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices and tropical calculus

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Date 01.11.2012
Hour 15:1517:00
Speaker Andras Szenes,University of Geneva
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Category Conferences - Seminars
We describe a new approach to classical eigenvalue inequalities for Hermitian matrices: the Gelfand-Zeitlin and the Horn inequalities. Taking a tropical limit, these inequalities are reproduced by certain piecewise linear functions on weighted planar networks.
This is joint work with A. Alekseev and M. Podkopaeva.

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  • Tamas Hausel

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