Commutative Algebra Seminar
Spring 2025
Regular Day: Friday
Regular Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Regular Location: LCB 222
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January 10 joint with AG |
Hülya Argüz
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Log Gromov-Witten invariants, introduced by Abramovich-Chen-Gross-Siebert, are counts of curves in pairs (X,D) consisting of a smooth
projective variety X together with a normal crossing divisor D, with prescribed tangency conditions along D. These invariants play a key role in mirror
symmetry for log Calabi-Yau pairs (X,D), in which case D is an anticanonical divisor. After briefly reviewing log Gromov-Witten theory, I will explain a
combinatorial recipe based on tropical geometry and wall-crossing algorithms to calculate such curve counts when (X,D) is obtained as a blow-up of a
toric variety along hypersurfaces in the toric boundary divisor. This is based on joint work with Mark Gross.
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January 22 joint with AG |
Claudiu Raicu
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A fundamental problem at the confluence of algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and representation theory is to understand the structure and vanishing behavior of the cohomology of line
bundles on (partial) flag varieties. I will describe an answer in the case of the incidence correspondence (the partial flag variety consisting of pairs of a point in projective space and a
hyperplane containing it), and highlight surprising connections to other questions of interest: the splitting of jet bundles on the projective line, the Han-Monsky representation ring, or
Lefschetz properties for Artinian monomial complete intersections. This is based on joint work with Annet Kyomuhangi, Emanuela Marangone, and Ethan Reed.
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January 24 joint with RT/NT |
Wan Chen
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In this talk, I will discuss some examples of the relative Langlands duality (introduced by Ben-Zvi-Sakellaridis-Venkatesh) for strongly
tempered spherical varieties. In some cases, I will introduce a relative trace formula comparison and prove the fundamental lemma/smooth transfer.
This is a joint work with Zhengyu Mao and Lei Zhang.
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January 31 joint with RT/NT |
David Schwein
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Supercuspidal representations are the mysterious "elementary particles" from which all other
representations of a reductive p-adic group are built. Residue characteristic two presents additional
difficulties in the construction of these representations, and even for classical groups, our knowledge is
incomplete. In this talk, based on joint work with Jessica Fintzen, I'll explain how to overcome one of
these difficulties: the exceptional behavior of the Heisenberg group and Weil representation in
characteristic two. Time permitting, I'll also explain how to overcome a second difficulty: disconnected
Lie-algebra centralizers.
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February 7 |
Aryaman Maithani
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Consider the conjugation action of GL_2(K) on the polynomial ring K[X]. When K is an infinite field, the ring of
invariants is a polynomial ring generated by the trace and the determinant. We describe the ring of invariants when K is a finite field, and show
that it is a hypersurface.
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March 21 |
Janina Letz
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The derived category of modules over a commutative ring captures many properties of the ring.
One approach is to study its triangulated structure through finite building. An object $X$ finitely
builds an object $Y$, if $Y$ can be obtained from $X$ by taking cones, suspensions and retracts. The
$X$-level measures the number of cones required in this process. This recovers various classical
invariants as projective dimension and Loewy length. I will explain the behavior of level with respect to
tensor products in an enhanced triangulated category. I will further present applications to Koszul
objects, which generalize Koszul complexes. This is joint work with Marc Stephan.
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March 28 2pm |
Henning Krause
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Matlis duality for modules over commutative rings gives rise to the notion of Matlis
reflexivity. In my talk I will discuss basic properties, adding some new perspectives on a classical
subject.
For instance, I'll explain that Matlis reflexive modules form a Krull-Schmidt category. For noetherian
rings the absence of infinite direct sums is a characteristic feature of Matlis reflexivity.
This leads to a discussion of objects that are extensions of artinian by noetherian objects. Also,
classifications of Matlis reflexive modules for some small examples are discussed.
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March 28 3pm |
Julia Pevtsova
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TT geometry associates a geometric invariant - the Spectrum - to a tensor triangulated
category. This invariant carries a lot of global structure information
about the category; but the calculations are usually difficult. I'll describe “the fiber functor”
technique which proved to be successful for calculating the spectrum in various settings. Motivations, as
often happens,
comes from commutative algebra, and examples include finite group schemes, Lie superalgebras, quantum
groups, and even old fashioned modular representation theory of finite groups. If time allows, I'll also
mention
one recently constructed family of tensor triangulated categories where the fiber functor technique is
destined to fail basically by definition.
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April 4 |
Nawaj KC
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Suppose R -> S is a surjective map of local Noetherian rings. In this talk I will discuss a notion of lifting S-modules to R-modules along this map. Classically, we say an S-module M
lifts to an R-module M' if M' is isomorphic to M upon extending scalars via R -> S, and Tor_i(M', R) = 0 for i > 0. It turns out, it is interesting to consider a much weaker and more
geometric notion of lifting modules. Instead of asking the higher Tors to vanish, we require that the lift M' of M is of the "correct codimension," that is, dim R - dim M' = dim S -
dim M.
This is mostly joint work with Andrew Soto Levins and partly ongoing joint work with Kesavan Mohana Sundaram, Ben Katz, and Ryan Watson.
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April 11 |
Ben Antieau
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I will describe a new construction of the spectral sequence of a filtration which makes transparent certain properties like
multiplicativity. The construction uses an old t-structure on filtered complexes, the Beilinson t-structure, which I will explain in detail.
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April 18 |
Saeed Nasseh
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Lifting theory was studied by Auslander, Ding, and Solberg for modules and by Yoshino for complexes. Further progress on this theory has
been made recently (in the works of Nasseh, Ono, Sather-Wagstaff, and Yoshino) in the context of differential graded (DG) modules in order to
obtain a clearer insight on some major problems in commutative algebra.
In this talk, I will survey recent developments on the lifting theory of DG modules and describe a relationship between this notion and a DG
version of the notion of connections. This is an in-progress joint work with Maiko Ono and Yuji Yoshino.
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April 25 |
TBA
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TBA
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