Quantum Category O and Categorification of Periodic Hecke Module, Lecture 3

Fri Apr 4, 2025 4:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m.
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Seminar: 
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics

Event time: 
Friday, April 4, 2025 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

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”.

In the third lecture, I will introduce the main result on an equivalence between quantum category O and affine Hecke category. Then I will explain the corresponding t-structure on the affine Hecke category, and its relation to the periodic Hecke module.

Research Area(s): 
Representation Theory

Special note: 
Seminar talk is supported in part by the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Fund.