On 16 September 2019 I gave a talk in the Monash discrete mathematics seminar.

Title:

The sensitivity conjecture, induced subgraphs of cubes, and Clifford algebras

Abstract:

Recently, Hao Huang gave an ingenious short proof of a longstanding conjecture in computer science, the Sensitivity Conjecture, about the complexity of boolean functions. Huang proved this conjecture by establishing a result about the maximal degree of induced subgraphs of cube graphs. In recent work, we gave a new version of this result, and slightly generalise it, by connecting it to the theory of Clifford Algebras, algebraic structures which arise all across mathematics.

Talk in Monash discrete mathematics seminar, September 2019

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