06.11.2024, 14:00 - 16:00
– Campus Golm, Building 9, Room 2.22 and via Zoom
Institutskolloquium
Graphon Models for Inhomogeneous Random Graphs
Olga Klopp (Paris), Nicolas Verzelen (Montpellier)
Pierre Clavier (Mulhouse), Yannic Vargas (Graz)
Pierre Clavier (Mulhouse):
This talk will be introductory and non-technical, with the aim to introduce the participants to
current research questions about shuffle of rooted forests. I will start by recalling the definition and
properties of the usual shuffles of words. Then I will present a family of shuffles of rooted forests
generalising these shuffle of words and state an important result that relates them to Rota-Baxter
operators. Finally I will present some recent results on their (not quite) universal properties and
state open questions regarding their coalgebraic.
Yannic Vargas (Graz):
In this introductory talk, we present the definition of cumulants associated with bimonoids in the category of species, as defined by Aguiar and Mahajan. Bimonoids in species is a categorical analog of bimonoids in the category of graded vector spaces. When the bimonoid is connected, cocommutative, and locally finite, each of its n-th cumulants is a non-negative integer. Moreover, this number is related to the dimension of its space of primitives. We will illustrate this fact using two approaches: first by using species versions of the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt and Cartier-Milnor-Moore theorems, and then by using the characteristic operations of a bimonoid and the action of the Tits algebra of compositions on the space of primitives of the bimonoid. Finally, we give an overview of the notion of free cumulants of a bimonoid, related to the free independence of Voiculescu's theory of Free Probability.