Europe/Lisbon
Room P3.10, Mathematics Building — Online

Radmila Sazdanovic
Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University

Bilinear pairings on two-dimensional cobordisms and generalizations of the Deligne category

The Deligne category of symmetric groups is the additive Karoubi closure of the partition category. The partition category may be interpreted, following Comes, via a particular linearization of the category of two-dimensional oriented cobordisms. In this talk we will use a generalization of this approach to the Deligne category coupled with the universal construction of two-dimensional topological theories to construct their multi-parameter monoidal generalizations, one for each rational function in one variable. This talk is based on joint work with M. Khovanov.

Local participants are invited to join us in room 3.10 (3rd floor, Mathematics Department, Instituto Superior Técnico).