Representations of rigid matroids

Abstract: We give a new proof, along with some generalizations, of a folklore theorem - attributed to Laurent Lafforgue - that a rigid matroid (i.e., a matroid whose base polytope is indecomposable) has only finitely many projective equivalence classes of representations over any given field. A key ingredient in the proof is a generalization of the category of commutative rings which we call *bands*.

algebraic geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic

Stanford algebraic geometry seminar

Series comments: The seminar was online for a significant period of time, but for now is solely in person. More seminar information (including slides and videos, when available): agstanford.com