School of Technology and Computer Science Seminars

The Skolem - Mahler - Lech Theorem

by Prabhat Kumar Jha (STCS, TIFR)

Asia/Kolkata
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)

A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)

Description
Abstract: The Skolem - Mahler - Lech Theorem states that given any linear recurrence sequence over any field of characteristic 0, the set of positions where 0 occurs is union of a finite set and finitely many arithmetic progressions. We will discuss a proof of this theorem.