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November 20, 2009
Friday, November 20
Algebra Seminar
Time: 14:30
Speaker: Christopher Brav (Toronto)
Title: "Stability conditions and Kleinian singularities"
Room: MC 108

Abstract: We review slope stability for coherent sheaves on algebraic curves and then discuss Tom Bridgeland's generalization of stability to triangulated categories. For a certain triangulated category associated to a Kleinian singularity, Bridgeland conjectured that a connected component of the space of stability conditions should be the universal cover of a $K(G,1)$ for $G$ a generalized braid group and showed this is the case for $G$ the classical braid group. We generalize this to braid groups of types ADE. This is joint work with Hugh Thomas.