talk 1: Quantum groups from Fukaya Categories

31 Mar 2025, 09:30
50m

Speaker

Mina Aganagic (University of California, Berkeley)

Description

There is a family of Fukaya categories, or categories of A-branes, labeled by a choice of a Lie algebra, which categorify Chern-Simons invariants of links. I will describe how categorified quantum group symmetry, coproduct included, emerge from a certain natural set of cutting and gluing operations which these Fukaya categories posses.

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