Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
Categorification of quantum groups

 

Mikhail Khovanov

Columbia University
 

Harvard University

Thursday, October 23, 2008


 

Talk at 4:30 p.m. in Science Center D

Tea at 4:00 p.m. in the Math Lounge


 
 

Abstract:   In 1990 Beilinson, Lusztig, and MacPherson defined an idempotented form of quantum sl(n). I'll discuss a joint work with Aaron Lauda on categorification of quantum sl(n) and explain the conjectural role of this categorification in representation theory.


 

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Posted: October 14, 2008    URL: http://www.math.neu.edu/bhmn/khovanov08.html