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Uladzimir Shtukar, NC Central University, “Canonical bases, subalgebras, reductive pairs of Lie algebras, and possible applications”

SAS 4201

Subalgebras of Lie algebra of Lorentz group will be discussed as the basic examples at the beginning of the report. The corresponding analysis is performed by canonical bases for subspaces of a vector space. All canonical bases for 5-dimensional and 4-dimensional subspaces of a 6-dimensional vector space are found, and they are utilized to find…

Jamie Pommersheim, Reed College, “Euler-Maclaurin summation formulas for polytopes”

SAS 4201

Discovered in the 1730s, the classical Euler-Maclaurin formula may be viewed as a formula for summing the values of a function over the lattice points in a one-dimensional polytope. Several years ago, Berline and Vergne generalized this formula to polytopes of arbitrary dimension, obtaining a formula for the sum of a polynomial function over the…

Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College, “The partition algebra, symmetric functions and Kronecker coefficients”

SAS 4201

The Schur-Weyl duality between the symmetric group and the general linear group allows us to connect the representation theory of these two groups. A consequence of this duality is the Frobenius formula which connects the irreducible characters of the general linear group and the symmetric group via symmetric functions. The symmetric group is also in…

Max Glick, University of Connecticut, “The Berenstein-Kirillov group and cactus groups”

Berenstein and Kirillov have studied the action of Bender-Knuth moves on semistandard tableaux. Losev has studied a cactus group action in Kazhdan-Lusztig theory; in type A this action can also be identified in the work of Henriques and Kamnitzer. We establish the relationship between the two actions. We show that the Berenstein-Kirillov group is a…

Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech, “Quiver Hall-Littlewood symmetric functions and Kostka-Shoji polynomials”

SAS 1102

We associate to any quiver a family of symmetric functions, defined by creation operators which are generalizations of Jing's creation operators. For the cyclic quiver the coefficient polynomials were studied by Finkelberg and Ionov. Shoji has recently shown that the single variable specialization of the Finkelberg-Ionov polynomials agree with polynomials he studied in relation to…

Ben Cox, College of Charleston, “On the universal central extension of certain Krichever-Novikov algebras”

SAS 4201

We will describe results on the center of the universal central extension of certain Krichever-Novikov algebras. In particular we will describe how various families of classical and non-classical orthogonal polynomials appear. We will also provide certain new identities of elliptic integrals. This material we will cover was obtained in joint work with V. Futorny, J.…

Richard Rimanyi, UNC Chapel Hill, Counting partitions and quantum dilogarithm identities

SAS 4201

In the theory of Donaldson-Thomas invariants for quivers one finds identities for quantum dilogarithm series. The combinatorial interpretation of the simplest of these identities is equivalent to a clever way of counting partitions. The combinatorial interpretation of more involved dilogarithm identities is not known. In the talk we will explore the geometry (DT invariants), topology…

Leonardo Mihalcea, Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert cells: geometry and representation theory

SAS 4201

A compact manifold has a tangent bundle, and a natural question is to find a replacement for the Chern classes of the tangent bundle, in the case when the space is singular. The Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson (CSM) classes are homology classes which ``behave like" the Chern classes of the tangent bundle, and are determined by a functoriality…