Geometry Seminar

 

Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomails

for Lie superalgebras

 

 

Professor R.B. Zhang

University of Sydney

 

Abstract

An isomorphism is established between Grothendieck groups of the type A Lie algebra and Lie superalgebra in the inductive limit. The proof is derived from the respective Kazhdan-Lusztig theories for the algebras reformulated in terms of canonical bases of a quantum group. A consequence of this isomorphism is that the usual parabolic Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of type A compute the characters of the finite dimensional irreducible representations of the general linear superalgebra.

 

 

Date:

December 15, 2006 (Friday)

Time:

3:30 – 4:30pm

Place:

Room 517, Meng Wah Complex, HKU

 

 

 

 

All are welcome