Introduction to Crystal Bases

Wed, 02/02/2011
11:30
Nicholas Cooney (University of Oxford) Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
I will give an introduction to Kashiwara's theory of crystal bases. Crystals are combinatorial objects associated to integrable modules for quantum groups that, together with the related notion of crystal bases, capture several combinatorial aspects of their representation theory.