Venue
Seminar hall
Speaker
Dr. Mrinal Kanti Das
Affiliation
ISI Kolkata
Title
On a conjecture of Murthy
Abstract: This talk concerns M. P. Murthy's conjecture on the number of generators of an ideal in the polynomialring over a field. The progress on this conjecture has been quite slow. We shall give an exposition of the partialsolutions obtained so far, which includes a very recent result.