Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/10/2023
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: BSB 104

Speaker: Siegfried Van Hille Wednesday October 25

Title: Proving the symmetric function theorem using the chain rule

Abstract: The symmetric function theorem states that any symmetric function can be written as some function in the “elementary” symmetric functions. For example, in two variables, x^2+2xy+y^2 is symmetric, and it equals (x+y)^2, where x+y is the first elementary function in two variables. I will discuss a classical proof of this theorem, and then prove it again by brute force using the chain rule for any order derivative in any number of variables.

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