Professor Frits Beukers (Universiteit Utrecht)

will speak on

Algebraic hypergeometric functions

Time: 5:00PM
Date: Wed 23rd April 2008
Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room [map]

Abstract: Hypergeometric functions (in one and several variables) are classical
functions which occur at many places in mathematics and mathematical physics. We shall be interested in hypergeometric functions which are at the same time algebraic in their arguments. This subject started in 1873 with the work of H. A. Schwarz. In this lecture we discuss a number of examples, introduce a general class of several variable hypergeometric functions, the so-called GKZ-functions, and describe a combinatorial criterion for their algebraicity.

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(This talk is part of the K-Theory, Quadratic Forms and Number Theory series.)

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