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Spiders, buildings, and geometric Satake

Monday, 14 February, 2011 - 11:30
Prénom de l'orateur : 
Greg
Nom de l'orateur : 
KUPERBERG
Résumé : 

Louis Kauffman is a special description of the Jones polynomial and the representation
theory of U_q(SL(2))
in which each skein space has a basis of planar matchings. There is a similar
calculus (discovered independently by myself and the late François Jaeger) for
each of the three rank 2 simple Lie algebras A_2, A_2, and G_2.

These skein theories, called ``spiders

Institution de l'orateur : 
Institut Fourier
Thème de recherche : 
Algèbre et géométries
Salle : 
04
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