Braid groups and their 2-representations

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• Anthony Licata (Australian National University)
• Tuesday 17 January 2017, 14:30-15:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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The main topic of this lecture series will be the Artin braid group B_n.  We study this group using two main tools:
1) linear 2-representations of B_n, and
2) annular Khovanov homology (see Eli Grigsby's lectures).
The first lecture will introduce the braid group, explain what it means for B_n to act on a category, and motivate the study of 2-representations of braid groups.
In later lectures, we will study a particular example of a (faithful) 2-representation of B_n – the categorified Burau representation – in detail, and explain how various structures of interest in the study of the braid group can be studied through the lens of this 2-representation.  Time permitting, we will discuss the relationship between linear 2-representations of B_n and geometric representation theory.

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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