Mathematical Physics
This series consists of talks in the area of Mathematical Physics.
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Monday Jul 09, 2018
Quantized lattices, or q-lattices, appear naturally through categorification constructions (for example from zigzag-algebras), but they haven't been studied from a lattice theory point of view. After establishing the necessary background, we'll explain the q-versions of various lattice theory concepts illustrated with examples from combinatorics and graph theory, and we'll list a number of open problems.
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Wednesday Jul 04, 2018Speaker(s):
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Friday May 18, 2018Speaker(s):
In this talk we will discuss three (intimately related) examples of 4-manifold invariants based on higher structures:
- VOA[M4] from transgression of EFTs;
- SW and Donaldson invariants as chiral algebra correlators;
- Massey triple products from trisections.
These topics are based, respectively, on work with A.Gadde, P.Putrov (and work to appear with B.Feigin); recent paper with M.Dedushenko and P.Putrov; and a solo paper of the speaker.Collection/Series:Scientific Areas:
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Thursday May 17, 2018Speaker(s):
Skew Howe duality is based on a very simple observation: the set of n by m matrices has commuting action of SL_n and SL_m. We can use this observation to study morphisms of GL_m representations using GL_n. This perspective has proven very useful in recent years for studying quantum knot invariants and their categorifications. I will survey work in this direction from the last 10 years, including more recent developments concerning annular skew Howe duality and annular knot invariants.
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Thursday May 17, 2018Speaker(s):
In this talk, intended for a broader audience, I promise to use techniques only at the level of university calculus. While staying at this level, our goal will be to learn conceptual lessons for categorification of quantum group invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, also known as the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev (or WRT) invariants. In particular, we will introduce new q-series invariants of 3-manifolds that have integer powers and integer coefficients and, if time permits, discuss their various constructions and properties. The talk is based on several papers with D. Pei and/or P. Putrov, C.
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Monday May 14, 2018Speaker(s):
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Monday May 07, 2018Speaker(s):
The cobordism hypothesis gives a functorial bijection between oriented
n-dimensional fully local topological field theories, valued in some
higher category C, and the fully dualizable object of C equipped with
the structure of SO(n)-fixed point. In this talk I'll explain recent
works of Haugseng, Johnson-Freyd and Scheimbauer which construct a
Morita 4-category of braided tensor categories, and I'll report on joint
work with Brochier and Snyder which identifies two natural subcategories
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Monday May 07, 2018
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Monday Apr 30, 2018Speaker(s):
In this talk I will describe joint work in progress with Andre Henriques to construct examples of Graeme Segal's functorial definition of 2d chiral conformal field theory. While Segal's definition originated in the 1980's, constructive aspects of the theory continue to be challenging, especially with regard to higher genus surfaces. I will motivate and introduce Segal's definition, and describe a new approach to constructing examples using von Neumann algebras.
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