University of Minnesota Combinatorics Seminar
Friday, February 22, 2013
3:35pm in 570 Vincent Hall



Tropical geometry and integrable cellular automata

Rei Inoue

Chiba University


Abstract

The box-ball system (BBS) is an cellular automaton given by a simple rule to move finite number of balls in boxes in a line. The integrability of the BBS is clarified by crystal base theory and tropical geometry. In this talk I will review the BBS mainly from the view point of tropical geometry.