Title: A Proof of the Manickam-Miklos-Singhi Conjecture for Vector Spaces
Speaker: Ameerah Chowdhury, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:00pm
Location: Hill Center, Room 525, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Let V be an n-dimensional vector space over a finite field. Assign a real-valued weight to each 1-dimensional subspace in V so that the sum of all weights is zero. Define the weight of a subspace S of V to be the sum of the weights of all the 1-dimensional subspaces it contains. We prove that if n >= 3k, then the number of k-dimensional subspaces in V with nonnegative weight is at least the number of k-dimensional subspaces in V that contain a fixed 1-dimensional subspace. This result verifies a conjecture of Manickam and Singhi from 1988. Joint work with Ghassan Sarkis (Pomona College) and Shahriar Shahriari (Pomona College).
See: http://math.rutgers.edu/seminars/allseminars.php?sem_name=Discrete%20Math