Prelims Corner is back for Michaelmas 2025!
We will be running Prelims Corner from 11am-12pm on Mondays outside L1 from Weeks 2-8. This is the perfect opportunity to receive support from an experienced DPhil student about particularly tricky maths problems, or just to meet and work with other Prelims students. Registration isn't required, so feel free to drop in and out as you need. Free snacks are provided!
12:00
Quantum Group Representations and Binary Matrix Lattices
Abstract
Quantum Groups are defined as $q$-deformations of the Universal Enveloping Algebra of a Lie Algebra. The study of Quantum Groups have deep connections with many areas in Mathematics and Physics. In this talk, I will focus on Crystal Bases of Quantum Group Representations. Crystal Bases are bases of a representation with properties that let us 'take $q$ to $0$' which gives a combinatorial bare-bone model of the representation. I will go through an example of a crystal base of Braided Exterior Powers of a Quantum Group Representation and relate the combinatorics to that of Binary Matrix Lattices.