Description
Speaker: Cutkosky, Steven D.
Time & Date: 5pm Tuesday, November 13.
Venue: Room 215
Title: Poincare' series of divisors on surface singularities.
Abstract: We associate a Hilbert function to the exceptional components of a resolution of singularities of a surface singularity, and study its structure. We consider the question of when its associated Poincare' series is rational.