Date
Fri, 03 Mar 2023
Time
12:00 - 13:00
Location
N3.12
Speaker
Duncan Laurie
Organisation
University of Oxford

Quantum toroidal algebras $U_{q}(\mathfrak{g}_{\mathrm{tor}})$ are certain Drinfeld quantum affinizations of quantum groups associated to affine Lie algebras, and can therefore be thought of as `double affine quantum groups'.

In particular, they contain (and are generated by) a horizontal and vertical copy of the affine quantum group. 

Utilising an extended double affine braid group action, Miki obtained in type $A$ an automorphism of $U_{q}(\mathfrak{g}_{\mathrm{tor}})$ which exchanges these subalgebras. This has since played a crucial role in the investigation of its structure and representation theory.

In this talk I shall present my recent work -- which extends the braid group action to all types and generalises Miki's automorphism to the ADE case -- as well as potential directions for future work in this area.

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