Categoria:
Seminari di Algebra e Geometria
Data e ora inizio evento:
Data e ora fine evento:
Aula:
Sala di Consiglio
Sede:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma
Speaker:
Johan Martens (University of Edinburgh)
The theory of conformal blocks provides us with projective representations of the mapping
class group. These can equivalently also be constructed from the point of view of
non-abelian theta functions, via the Hitchin connection. It has been known for some time
that, for SL(2), these representations have infinite order, with the exception of some sporadic
low levels. We will discuss how some of these sporadic cases can be understood via
rank-level duality. This is joint work with Baier, Bolognesi and Pauly.