Research of Tomaž Košir

 

 

Research interests

 

My interests are in applications of algebra (commutative and associative) and algebraic geometry to the problems in linear algebra and partial differential equations. Major part of my published work is in multiparameter spectral theory, but I am also interested in a number of related problems in the areas of commuting matrices, commuting varieties, representations of commutative zero-dimensional algebras, matrix groups and semigroups,  and others. My interests were greatly influenced by concrete applied problems. I also help in developing numerical algorithms that can be applied to such problems.

                                                                                             

 

Editorial work:

 

I am a member of the editorial board of the Rendiconti dell’Istituto di Matematica dell’Università di Trieste: An International Journal of Mathematics that is published since 1969.

                                                                                             

 

Recent Publications:

 

  • with A. Buckley: Plane curves as Pfaffians, submitted.
  • with P. Oblak: On pairs of commuting nilpotent matrices.  Transform. Groups  14  (2009),  no. 1, 175-182. pdf
  • with K. Cvetko-Vah, D. Kokol-Bukovšek, G. Kudryavtseva, Y. Lavrenyuk, and A. Oliynyk: Semitransitive and transitive subsemigroups of the  inverse symmetric semigroups, Semigroup Forum  78  (2009),  no. 1, 138-147.
  • with J. Bernik, R. Drnovšek, D. Kokol-Bukovšek, and M. Omladič: Reducibility and triangularizability of semitransitive operator spaces, Houston J. Math.  34  (2008),  no. 1, 235-247.
  • with J. Bernik, R. Drnovšek, L. Livshits, M. Mastnak, M. Omladič, and H. Radjavi: Approximate permutability of traces on semigroups of matrices, Oper. Matrices  1  (2007),  no. 4, 455—467. pdf
  • with A. Buckley: Determinantal representations of smooth cubic surfaces, Geometria Dedicata 125 (2007), 115-140. pdf
  • with D. Kokol Bukovšek, N. Novak, and P. Oblak: Products of commuting nilpotent operators, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra 16 (2007), 237-247. pdf.
  • with A. Buckley: Construction of self-adjoint determinantal representations of smooth cubic surfaces, Proceedings of EUROSIM 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pdf.
  • with B.A. Sethuraman we wrote an appendix to J. Holbrook and J. P. Schoch: Moving zeros among matrices, Linear Algebra and its Applications 424 (2007), 83-95, pdf
  • Semitransitivity Working Group at LAW'05, Bled: Semitransitive subspaces of matrices, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra 15, (2006), 225-238. pdf
  • with B.A. Sethuraman: A Groebner basis for the 2 x 2 determinantal ideal mod t, Journal of Algebra 292 (2005), 138-153, pdf. Related S-polynomial computations are available following this link.
  • with B.A. Sethuraman: Determinantal Varieties Over Truncated Polynomial Rings, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 195 (2005), 75-95. pdf
  • with J. Bernik, R. Drnovšek, T.J. Laffey, G. MacDonald, R. Meshulam, M. Omladič, and H. Radjavi: Common fixed points and common eigenvectors for sets of matrices, Linear and  Multilinear Algebra 53 (2005), 137-146. pdf
  • with P. Binding: Root Vectors for Geometrically Simple Two-Parameter Eigenvalues, Transactions Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), 1705-1726. pdf
  • Root Vectors for Geometrically Simple Multiparameter Eigenvalues, Integr. Eq. Op. Theory 48 (2004), 365-396. pdf
  • with R. Drnovšek: Irreducible Operator Semigroups such that AB and BA are Proportional,  Linear Algebra and its Applications. Special Issue in honor of Heydar Radjavi. Vol. 383 (2004), 113-118. pdf
  • with M.E. Hochstenbach and B. Plestenjak: A Jacobi-Davidson Type Method for the Two-Parameter Eigenvalue Problem, SIAM J.  Matrix Anal. Appl. 26 (2004/05), 477-497. pdf
  • with J. Bernik, R. Drnovšek,  M. Omladič,  and H. Radjavi: Irreducible semigroups of matrices with eigenvalue one, Semigroup Forum 67 (2003), 271-287.
  • The Cayley-Hamilton Theorem and Inverse Problems for Multiparameter Systems, Linear Algebra and its Applications 367 (2003), 155-163. pdf
  • with B. Plestenjak: On stability of invariant subspaces of commuting matrices, Linear Algebra and its  Applications 342 (2002), 133-147. pdf

 

 

Link to the complete bibliography

                                                                                             

 

Help in organizing meetings

 

IN ALGEBRA:

We are organizing a Linear Algebra Workshop (LAW) in Slovenia, every third year since 1996. The 6th LAW will be held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, May 25-June 1, 2011. The 4th LAW was held in conjunction with the Conference in Honor of Heydar Radjavi’s 70th Birthday in Bled, Slovenia, in May 2005.

 

IN FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS:

I also helped organizing the Summer school in financial mathematics in Ljubljana in September 2009, and I am a member of the organizing committee of the 5th General Conference in Advanced Mathematical Methods in Finance that will take place in Bled, Slovenia, May 4 – 8, 2010. It is organized as a part of the AMaMeF scientific program sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

 

IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY:

With researchers from the Universities of Trieste and Udine, and SISSA with ICTP we organize one day meetings in Algebraic Geometry. TULS I in 2003 and TULS IV in 2006 were held in Ljubljana.