색과 그래프: 그래프 색칠 문제의 매력과 도전

<학부생을 위한 ɛ 강연> 색과 그래프: 그래프 색칠 문제의 매력과 도전

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강연자 박보람
소속 아주대학교
그래프 색칠 문제는 그래프 이론에서 중요한 주제로, 인접한 두 정점이 같은 색을 가지지 않도록 그래프를 색칠하는 방법을 연구합니다. 이는 단순한 퍼즐처럼 보일 수 있지만, 수학적 깊이와 다양한 응용 가능성을 지니고 있습니다. 이번 강연에서는 그래프 색칠 문제의 역사적 배경과 기본 개념을 소개하고, 4색 정리와 같은 유명한 정리와 다양한 연구 방향, 매력적인 추측들을 소개합니다.

Threefold hypersurfaces with zero defect

강연자 : 홍규식 | 소속 : 전주대학교
In commutative algebra, a unique factorization domain, or simply UFD, is a commutative ring in which every element can be uniquely written as a product of prime elements, analogous to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic for the integers. UFDs are sometimes called factorial rings, following the terminology of Bourbaki. Most rings familiar from elementary mathematics are UFDs: the integers, the polynomial rings over a field, the formal power series ring over a field, the ring of functions in a fixed number of complex variables holomorphic at the origin etc. However, most factor rings of a polynomial ring are not UFDs. For a given commutative ring, it is an interesting question to decide weather it is UFD or not. Two questions above are of different natures. However, they are closely related through the topology of mildly singular algebraic threefolds. In mathematics, an affine algebraic variety is essentially a set of common zeroes of a set of polynomials. Similarly, a projective algebraic variety is a set of common zeroes of a set of homogeneous forms. Algebraic varieties are one of the central objects of study in classical and modern algebraic geometry. An affine algebraic variety is called factorial if its coordinate ring is UFD. For a projective algebraic variety, one can define the factoriality in a similar way. In most of cases, the factoriality of projective varieties can be expressed in terms of topological data and can be proved by using powerful tools of topology such as the Lefschetz theorem and the Poincare duality. Algebraic surfaces, i.e., algebraic varieties of complex dimension two, are usually not factorial. For most of complex projective threefolds, i.e., algebraic varieties of complex dimension three, the factoriality simply means that its topology is trivial outside of the cycles of real dimension three. For example, every smooth threefold hypersurface is factorial by the Lefschetz theorem and the Poincare duality. For threefolds with isolated singularities, we still can use the Lefschetz theorem, but the Poincare duality usually fails. For example, every smooth threefold hypersurface is factorial if and only if the Poincare duality does not fail for it. The factoriality of threefolds with isolated singularities has been considered by several authors for a long time. For a wide class of singular threefolds, the factoriality problem, introducing the concept of defect, was investigated by Clemens. He showed that the factoriality of many singular threefolds can be expressed in terms of the number of independent linear conditions that their singular points impose on the homogeneous forms of certain degree. We plan to investigate how the factoriality of singular threefolds depends on the number of singular points.