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A hunka hunka burnin' knot homology
One of the conundra of mathematics in the age of the internet is when to start talking about your results. Do you wait until a convenient chance to talk at a conference? Wait until the paper is ready … more →
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A hunka hunka burnin' knot homology
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Ben Webster wrote 2 months ago: One of the conundra of mathematics in the age of the internet is when to start talking about your re … more →
Symplectic duality slides
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Ben Webster wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been too lazy to write in detail about the progress in my research (well, I am writing si … more →
Gale and Koszul duality, together at last
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Ben Webster wrote 1 year ago: So, in past posts, I’ve attempted to explain a bit about Gale duality and about Koszul duality … more →
Hypertoric varieties and Koszul duality
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Ben Webster wrote 1 year ago: So, on Wednesday, I gave a talk with the above title at IAS, about work in progress with Tom Braden, … more →
Interpreting the Hecke Algebra
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David Speyer wrote 1 year ago: Let denote the finite field with elements. Let denote the set of complete flags in . Such a flag is … more →
Dispatches from the Conference on Gauge and Representation Theory
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Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: So, I got back from Scotland and my family Thanksgiving (mmm, turkey) just in time for an enormous c … more →
Koszul algebras and Koszul duality
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Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: One of the famous theorems that tend to crop up in undergraduate algebra classes is the Artin-Wedder … more →
Components of Springer fibers, category O, and Khovanov's "functor valued invariant of tangles"
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Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: I’ll just note at the beginning, this post is a bit of an experiment. At this point, it is abo … more →
Soergel bimodules
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Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: The next ingredient in my paper with Geordie is understanding a bit about Soergel bimodules. Soergel … more →
John Brundan and the centers of blocks of category O
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Ben Webster wrote 2 years ago: So, those of you who like the categorical approach to representation theory probably know about the … more →
