Sheaf quivers and W-algebras

Seminar: 
Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry
Event time: 
Friday, October 9, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
214 LOM
Speaker: 
Vasily Pestun
Speaker affiliation: 
IHES
Event description: 

Motivated by the supersymmetric gauge theory, in this talk I will
explain the construction of the generalized cohomological quiver
two-parametric (t,q) W-algebras in terms of the equivariant K-theory
of the quiver representations in sheaves on C^2. If t=1 the associated
(1,q) W-algebra becomes classical Poisson commutative algebra related
the representation theory of q-quantum affine groups of Drinfeld
described by the theory of q-characters of Frenkel and Reshetikhin.
Hence, the present construction can be informally thought as a second
t-quantization of quantum affine groups.
Best, Sasha