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Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 2 Oct 2016
Calendar1: 26 Aug 2016 1200-1300
CalLoc1: Carslaw 375
CalTitle1: Categorification via blocks of modular representations in type A
Auth: kevinc@pkevinc.pc (assumed)

# Algebra Seminar: Nandakumar -- Categorification via blocks of modular representations in type A

Vinoth Nandakumar (University of Sydney)

Friday 26 August, 12-1pm, Place: Carslaw 375

Categorification via blocks of modular representations in type A

Bernstein-Frenkel-Khovanov have constructed a categorification of tensor products of the
standard representation of sl_2, where they use singular blocks of category O for sl_m
and translation functors.  Here we construct a positive characteristic analogue using
blocks of representations of sl_m in positive characteristic, with 0 Frobenius
character, and singular Harish-Chandra character.  We also show that this it admits a
graded lift, which is equivalent to a geometric categorification constructed by Cautis,
Kamnitzer and Licata using coherent sheaves on co-tangent bundles to Grassmanians (after
applying equivalences due to Riche and Bezrukavnikov-Mirkovic-Rumynin).  This is joint
work with Gufang Zhao.


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