Line defects and tilting bundles
Speaker:
Ben Webster, University of Waterloo
Date and Time:
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Work on Bezrukavnikov and Kaledin provides a bridge between representation theory and algebraic geometry, giving an equivalence of derived categories between certain categories of coherent sheaves and non-commutative algebras. Their original construction involved a strange detour into the land of characteristic p, but with some insight from 3-d gauge theory, we can avoid this in the case of BFN Coulomb branches, interpreting the summands of Kaledin’s tilting bundle as line defects in the A-twist of the gauge theory.