Topological Quantum Field Theory Seminar  

12/10/2010, 14:00 — 15:00 — Room P4.35, Mathematics Building
Anne-Laure Thiel, Instituto Superior Técnico

Categorification of singular braid monoids and of virtual braid groups

Rouquier categorified braid groups, in the sense that he associated to each braid a complex of Soergel bimodules such that complexes associated to isotopic braids are homotopy equivalent. I will start with recalling Rouquier's construction and then extend this result to singular braids and to virtual braids.