Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Emmanuel Wagner, Université de Bourgogne, France
Trivalent TQFT and applications

MOY calculus has been introduced in the 90s to compute combinatorially the quantum link invariant associated with the Hopf algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}(N))$. It associates to any decorated graph a Laurent polynomial in $q$. I will describe a TQFT-like functor which categorifies the MOY calculus and provides a new description of the $\mathfrak{sl}(N)$-homology.

(joint work with L.-H. Robert)