Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar Spring 2018

The seminar meets on Fridays at 2:25 pm in room B113.

Here is the schedule for the previous semester.

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Spring 2018 Schedule

date	speaker	title	host(s)
January 26	Tasos Moulinos (UIC)	Derived Azumaya Algebras and Twisted K-theory	Michael
February 2	Daniel Erman (Wisconsin)	TBA	Local
February 8 (unusual date! 2:30-3:30 in VV B113)	Roman Fedorov (University of Pittsburgh)	A conjecture of Grothendieck and Serre on principal bundles in mixed characteristic	Dima
February 9	Juliette Bruce (Wisconsin)	TBA	Local
February 16	Andrei Caldararu (Wisconsin)	Computing a categorical Gromov-Witten invariant	Local
February 23	Aron Heleodoro (Northwestern)	TBA	Dima
March 2	Moisés Herradón Cueto (Wisconsin)	TBA	Local
April 6	Phil Tosteson (Michigan)	TBA	Steven
April 13	Reserved		Daniel
April 20	Alena Pirutka (NYU)	TBA	Jordan
April 27	Alexander Yom Din (Caltech)	TBA	Dima
May 4	John Lesieutre (UIC)	TBA	Daniel

Abstracts

Tasos Moulinos

Derived Azumaya Algebras and Twisted K-theory

Topological K-theory of dg-categories is a localizing invariant of dg-categories over [math]\displaystyle{ \mathbb{C} }[/math] taking values in the [math]\displaystyle{ \infty }[/math]-category of [math]\displaystyle{ KU }[/math]-modules. In this talk I describe a relative version of this construction; namely for [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math] a quasi-compact, quasi-separated [math]\displaystyle{ \mathbb{C} }[/math]-scheme I construct a functor valued in the [math]\displaystyle{ \infty }[/math]-category of sheaves of spectra on [math]\displaystyle{ X(\mathbb{C}) }[/math], the complex points of [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math]. For inputs of the form [math]\displaystyle{ \operatorname{Perf}(X, A) }[/math] where [math]\displaystyle{ A }[/math] is an Azumaya algebra over [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math], I characterize the values of this functor in terms of the twisted topological K-theory of [math]\displaystyle{ X(\mathbb{C}) }[/math]. From this I deduce a certain decomposition, for [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math] a finite CW-complex equipped with a bundle [math]\displaystyle{ P }[/math] of projective spaces over [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math], of [math]\displaystyle{ KU(P) }[/math] in terms of the twisted topological K-theory of [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math] ; this is a topological analogue of a result of Quillen’s on the algebraic K-theory of Severi-Brauer schemes.

Roman Fedorov

A conjecture of Grothendieck and Serre on principal bundles in mixed characteristic

Let G be a reductive group scheme over a regular local ring R. An old conjecture of Grothendieck and Serre predicts that such a principal bundle is trivial, if it is trivial over the fraction field of R. The conjecture has recently been proved in the "geometric" case, that is, when R contains a field. In the remaining case, the difficulty comes from the fact, that the situation is more rigid, so that a certain general position argument does not go through. I will discuss this difficulty and a way to circumvent it to obtain some partial results.

Andrei Caldararu

Computing a categorical Gromov-Witten invariant

In his 2005 paper "The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a TCFT" Kevin Costello described a procedure for recovering an analogue of the Gromov-Witten potential directly out of a cyclic A-inifinity algebra or category. Applying his construction to the derived category of sheaves of a complex projective variety provides a definition of higher genus B-model Gromov-Witten invariants, independent of the BCOV formalism. This has several advantages. Due to the categorical invariance of these invariants, categorical mirror symmetry automatically implies classical mirror symmetry to all genera. Also, the construction can be applied to other categories like categories of matrix factorization, giving a direct definition of FJRW invariants, for example.

In my talk I shall describe the details of the computation (joint with Junwu Tu) of the invariant, at g=1, n=1, for elliptic curves. The result agrees with the predictions of mirror symmetry, matching classical calculations of Dijkgraaf. It is the first non-trivial computation of a categorical Gromov-Witten invariant.

Aron Heleodoro

TBA

Alexander Yom Din

TBA