Quiver varieties and level rank duality

Seminar: 
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics
Event time: 
Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 10:30am to Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 11:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Anthony Licata
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale
Event description: 

We discuss level rank duality in the representation theory of affine Lie algebras of type A, and its relation to the geometry of Nakajima quiver varieties of type A.