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Geometry/Physics Seminar

Title: The integrality conjecture and the Kac positivity conjecture
Speaker: Ben Davison
Speaker Info: University of Glasgow and IST Austria
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Without assuming knowledge of any incarnation of Donaldson-Thomas theory, I'll give an introduction to the categorified version of it. I'll also explain what this upgrade of DT theory has to do with proving positivity conjectures, via my favourite example: the Kac positivity conjecture (originally proved by Hausel Letellier and Villegas), stating that polynomials counting absolutely indecomposable representations of quivers over Fq have positive coefficients.
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016
Time: 4:00pm
Where: Lunt 107
Contact Person: Ezra Getzler
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