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Mon, 10 Mar 2025
14:15
L5

A functorial approach to quantization of symplectic singularities

Lewis Topley
(University of Bath)
Abstract

Namikawa has shown that the functor of flat graded Poisson deformations of a conic symplectic singularity is unobstructed and pro-representable. In a subsequent work, Losev showed that the universal Poisson deformation admits, a quantization which enjoys a rather remarkable universal property. In a recent work, we have repackaged the latter theorem as an expression of the representability of a new functor: the functor of quantizations. I will describe how this theorem leads to an easy proof of the existence of a universal equivariant quantizations, and outline a work in progress in which we describe a presentation of a rather complicated quantum Hamiltonian reduction: the finite W-algebra associated to a nilpotent element in a classical Lie algebra. The latter result hinges on new presentations of twisted Yangians.

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