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Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 2:00pm

Mikhail Khovanov

Columbia University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Note date and location change

We'll construct a monoidal category with the Grothendieck ring naturally isomorphic to the integral lattice in the quantized enveloping algebra of the positive half of a simple Lie algebra. The category has a diagrammatical description, with morphisms given by braid-like planar pictures, strands labelled by simple roots of the Lie algebra. This is a joint work with Aaron Lauda.