PIRSA ID: https://pirsa.org/24110079
Series:
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s): Mathematical Physics
Speaker(s): Iordanis Romaidis University of Edinburgh
Event Link: https://events.perimeterinstitute.ca/e/875
Skein theory forms a once-categorified 3d TQFT and assigns skein algebras to surfaces and skein modules to 3-manifolds. Motivated by physics, these modules are expected to satisfy a certain holonomicity property, generalizing Witten's finiteness conjecture of skein modules. In this talk, we will recall the basic notions of skein theory as a deformation quantization theory, and then state and discuss the generalized Witten's finiteness conjecture.