Matrix factorizations and Kauffman homology

by Walcher, J. (IAS Princeton)

Friday 27 Jan 2006, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

This is a talk about the physical perspective on knot invariants of the homological type. Starting with knots decorated with the fundamental representation of sl(N), I will review the basic motivation, some mathematical definitions, and the relations with BPS invariants and topological strings on the resolved conifold. I will then present the conjectural extension of the theory to a larger class of Lie algebras and representations, and interrelations between them. This is joint work with Sergei Gukov.

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