Downloadable copy of my thesis.
Archive of posts filed under the cyclotomic category.
Viva
Today I successfully defended my PhD thesis, Cyclotomic Matrices and Graphs. There are of course numerous corrections to be made, but I hope to have those done within the next couple of weeks and to make the final version available online. Until then, here is the abstract: We generalise the study of cyclotomic matrices – [...]
Workshop on Discovery and Experimentation in Number Theory
I’m back from the Fields Institute in Toronto, where I spoke at the above workshop, on my usual topic of cyclotomic and 4-cyclotomic matrices/graphs. During the talk I described my conjecture that a graph is maximal cyclotomic if-and-only if it’s 4-cyclotomic, and after an hour at the blackboards with James McKee I now have a [...]
An infinite family of n-hypercubes
Having hit a bit of a wall trying to prove that a maximal cyclotomic matrix necessarily squares to 4I, I’ve been exploring related questions instead. For instance, it only took a couple of tweaks to my code to search for matrices that square to 3I instead of 4I; there turn out to be only finitely [...]
A dangerous assumption
I’ve often said that trying to explain your work to others is the best way to check you understand it, and whilst preparing for this week’s talk at Cambridge (which was apparently well received!) I started to have some doubts about an algorithm I’d been using. In the end I didn’t go into enough technical [...]
MAGIC Talk
Slides for a talk on cyclotomic matrices/graphs given at the MAGIC conference in Manchester.
What I’m working on…
Brief, fairly technical overview of what I’ve been working on these last few months.
