Quantum Category O and Categorification of Periodic Hecke Module, Lecture 2

Mon Mar 31, 2025 4:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m.
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Seminar: 
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics

Event time: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 
KT 801

Speaker: 
Quan Situ

Speaker affiliation: 
Université Clermont Auvergne

Event description: 
The BGG category O plays an important role in the study of representations of semisimple Lie algebras. Its connection to the Hecke category is a starting point of Geometric Representation Theory. In this lecture, I will introduce a version of category O for quantum groups at roots of unity. I will explain a derived equivalence from (the principal block of) quantum category O to the affine Hecke category. Under the equivalence, the highest weight structure of quantum category O provides a categorification of the “periodic Hecke module”.

I will continue in the second lecture by giving basic properties of quantum category O. Then I will introduce the affine Hecke algebra and the periodic Hecke module, and explain a categorification of the former using coherent sheaves on Steinberg variety.

Research Area(s): 
Representation Theory