24 August 2026 to 11 September 2026
Universität Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

talk 2: Categorical structure of Coulomb branches

24 Aug 2026, 11:30
50m
Geomatikum

Geomatikum

Speaker

Sabin Cautis (The University of British Columbia)

Description

Coulomb branches are certain moduli spaces arising in supersymmetric field theory. They include as special cases many spaces of independent interest in geometry and representation theory. In the four-dimensional case, their coordinate rings can be categorified (lifted) to tensor categories that carry a lot of structure. In these talks we will define and explore the structure of such categorified Coulomb branches.

Author

Sabin Cautis (The University of British Columbia)

Presentation materials