| Speaker: | Ben Davison (U of Glasgow) |
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| Title: | Cohomological BPS invariants, vanishing cycles and Kac-Moody Lie algebras. |
| Date (JST): | Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Place: | Seminar Room A |
| Abstract: | The theory of Donaldson-Thomas invariants associates to a quiver Q with potential W a partition function recording the weight polynomials of the cohomology of moduli stacks of representations built out of the Jacobi algebra associated to Q and W. This theory is a local model for the category of coherent sheaves on a Calabi-Yau 3-fold. While the partition function looks wildly infinite, after taking plethystic logarithms and multiplying by (1-q) it becomes a power series with polynomial coefficients - the so-called refined DT invariants. I will explain how to lift these invariants from polynomials to mixed Hodge structures, via categorification, and how this allows us to define a natural Lie algebra associated to an arbitrary quiver, extending the Kac-Moody Lie algebra of the quiver, that conjecturally is the geometric Yangian defined by Maulik and Okounkov. |
