Working Seminar on Symplectic/Contact Geometry/Topology  RSS

Sessions

07/02/2012, 10:30 — 11:30 — Room P4.35, Mathematics Building
, CAMGSD/IST

Hyperkahler manifolds - I

Motivational introduction
Q1
Why would a differential/symplectic/algebraic geometer care about hyperkähler manifolds?
Q2
Why would a quantum geometer care?
Technical introduction

Definition and basic properties of hyperkähler manifolds. Relation with the holomorphic symplectic point of view. Hyperkähler quotient/holomorphic symplectic quotient as a tool to construct interesting examples.

See also

https://www.math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~jmourao/ws/HK.pdf

Current organizer: Miguel Abreu

CAMGSD
a unit of the Associate Laboratory LARSyS