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Discrete Mathematics and Geometry

Discrete Mathematics Working Group (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Diskrete Mathematik, AGDM)

Info: The AGDM seminar is a joint seminar of the University of Vienna and TU Wien. In winter semesters, we meet on Tuesdays from 15:00 to 16:30 at the University of Vienna. In summer semesters, we meet on Tuesdays from 15:15 to 16:45 at TU Wien.

Since 2025, we use a mailing-list to advertise the seminar. You can register here.

Place: University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, BZ 09 (first room on the right on the 9th floor)

Time:Tuesday, 15:00-16:30

Next talk

Date: Tuesday 18.11.2025
Title: Embeddings of weighted projective spaces
Speaker: Fabián Levicán (University of Vienna)
Abstract: Let $X$ be a projective toric variety of dimension $n$ over an arbitrary field and let $L$ be an ample line bundle on $X$. For $k \geq 0$, it is in general difficult to determine whether $L^{\otimes k}$ is very ample and whether it additionally gives a projectively normal embedding. These two properties are equivalent to the very ampleness, respectively normality, of the corresponding polytope. By a result of Ewald-Wessels, both statements are classically known to hold for $k \geq n - 1$.
In this talk we study embeddings of weighted projective spaces $\mathbb{P}(a_0, \ldots, a_n)$ via their corresponding simplices. If one weight is equal to one, these are so-called rectangular simplices. In this case, we give multiple criteria (depending on arithmetic properties of the weights $a_i$) to obtain bounds for the power $k$ which are sharp in many cases. We also introduce combinatorial tools that allow us to systematically construct families exhibiting extremal behaviour. These results extend earlier work of Payne, Hering and Bruns-Gubeladze.
This is joint work with Praise Adeyemo (U Ibadan) and Dominic Bunnett (TU Berlin)

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Upcoming talks

25.11.2025Joshua Jeishing Wen
02.12.2025Marcus Schönfelder
09.12.2025
16.12.2025Atsuro Yoshida
13.01.2026
20.01.2026Markus Reibnegger
27.01.2026Mona Gatzweiler

Talks in the past years

Talks of years 2005 - 2025

Past talks of this year

11.11.2025Nicolas Allen Smoot (University of Vienna)Some New Examples of Modular Congruence Multiplicities
04.11.2025Eva-Maria Hainzl (TU Wien)Functional equations with catalytic variable 101
28.10.2025Shane Chern (University of Vienna)The Koutschan-Krattenthaler-Schlosser determinants and their combinatorics
21.10.2025Sergio Alejandro Fernandez de Soto Guerrero (TU Graz)MathMagic: A positroidal action over a deck of cards
14.10.2025Christian Krattenthaler (University of Vienna)Two Topics, Four Lessons
07.10.2025Matija Bucic (University of Vienna)Equiangular lines via improved eigenvalue multiplicity