Seminar series
Date
Mon, 20 Feb 2023
15:45
Speaker
Adrien Brochier
Organisation
Paris

Factorization homology is an arguably abstract formalism which produces
well-behaved topological invariants out of certain "higher algebraic"
structures. In this talk, I'll explain how this formalism can be made
fairly concrete in the case where this input algebraic structure is a
braided tensor category. If the category at hand is semi-simple, this in
fact essentially recovers skein categories and skein algebras. I'll
present various applications of this formalism to quantum topology and
representation theory.
 

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