Anton Alekseev

Abstract:   The same set of inequalities comes up in two seemingly unrelated problems. The first one is the Horn problem on the specrtum of a sum of two Hermitian matrices with given eigenvalues (solved by Klyachko and Knutson-Tao). The second one is related to combinatorics of certain planar graphs (planar networks) with tropical Boltzmann weights assigned to the edges. The unexpected link between the two problems comes from the theory of Poisson-Lie groups.

The talk is based on joint work with M. Podkopaeva and A. Szenes.

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