| Speaker: | Arkady Vaintrob (U of Oregon) |
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| Title: | Cohomological field theories from matrix factorizations |
| Date (JST): | Tue, May 08, 2018, 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Place: | Seminar Room A |
| Abstract: | A Cohomological field theory (CohFT) is an algebraic structure underlying the properties of Gromov-Witten invariants and quantum cohomology. I will describe a CohFT associated with a quasihomogeneous hypersurface singularity together with a finite group G of its symmetries. The state space of this theory is the equivariant Milnor ring of W and the corresponding invariants can be viewed as analogs of Gromov-Witten invariants for the non-commutative space associated with the pair (W,G). The construction is based on categories of (equivariant) matrix factorizations of singularities. The role of the virtual fundamental class from the Gromov-Witten theory played by a "fundamental matrix factorization" over a certain moduli space. I will present the main ingredients of the construction of the CohFT and some recent results and applications. The talk is based on joint work with A.Polishchuk. |
