JONAH BLASIAK'S WEBSITE


Research Interests

I am a math graduate student at UC Berkeley. I currently research algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. I am also interested in graph theory, complexity theory, and algebraic geometry.

Resume

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Thesis

Cyclage, catabolism, and the affine Hecke algebra. (2009), Advisor: Mark Haiman. PDF

Publications

Cyclage, catabolism, and the affine Hecke algebra. Preprint (2009). PDF

A factorization theorem for affine Kazhdan-Lusztig basis elements. Preprint (2009). PDF

W-graph versions of tensoring with the Sn defining representation. Preprint (Revised 2009). PDF

The toric ideal of a graphic matroid is generated by quadrics. Combinatorica, 28, no. 3 (2008), 283--297. PDF

(with A. Berglund and P. Hersh) Combinatorics of multigraded Poincaré series for monomial rings. J. Algebra, 308, no. 1 (2007), 73--90. PS

A special case of Hadwiger's conjecture. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 97, no. 6 (2007), 1056--1073. PDF
A longer version that was my senior thesis: PDF

(with R. Durrett) Random Oxford graphs. Stochastic Process. Appl., 115, no. 8 (2005), 1257--1278. PDF


Other Writings

Cohomology of the complex Grassmannian. An expository paper for the final in Hutchings' algebraic topology class. PDF

Longest common subsequences and the Bernoulli matching model: numerical work and analyses of the R-reach simplification. For my spring semester undergraduate junior paper. PDF


Magma Code

combinatorics.txt   Lots of functions from algebraic combinatorics including cyclage, catabolizability, and the standardization map of Lascoux and Schützenberger.

affineHecke.txt  Some messy, slow, but quite general code to compute canonical bases for iterated restriction and inductions. Supports affine Weyl group computations in type A and was written to work for all types but it does not yet do so. Computes cells and the partial order on cells in terms of tableaux.

affineHeckeuserRes3H4.txt  An example using affineHecke.txt to compute the cells of
ResHK IndHJH triv, where K = {s1, s2}, J = {s2}, and H is the Hecke algebra of type A3.