UWO Mathematics Calendar

Week of September 06, 2009
Tuesday, September 08

Symplectic Learning Seminar

Time: 13:30
Room: MC 108
Speaker: M. Pinsonnault (Western)
Title: Linear Symplectic Width and Ellipsoids

I will continue the survey on linear aspects of symplectic geometry by discussing the relations between linear symplectic capacities and ellipsoids.

 
Friday, September 11

Algebra Seminar

Time: 14:30
Room: MC108
Speaker: Emre Coskun (Western)
Title: The Fine Moduli Space of Representations of Clifford Algebras, Part 1

Given a fixed binary form $f(u,v)$ of degree $d$ over a field $k$, the associated Clifford algebra is the $k$-algebra $C_f=k\{u,v\}/I$, where $I$ is the two-sided ideal generated by elements of the form $(\alpha u+\beta v)^{d}-f(\alpha,\beta)$ with $\alpha$ and $\beta$ arbitrary elements in $k$. All representations of $C_f$ have dimensions that are multiples of $d$, and occur in families. In this article we construct fine moduli spaces $U=U_{f,r}$ for the $rd$-dimensional representations of $C_f$ for each $r \geq 2$. Our construction starts with the projective curve $C \subset \mathbb{P}^{2}_{k}$ defined by the equation $w^d=f(u,v)$, and produces $U_{f,r}$ as a quasiprojective variety in the moduli space $\mathcal{M}(r,d_r)$ of stable vector bundles over $C$ with rank $r$ and degree $d_r=r(d+g-1) $, where $g$ denotes the genus of $C$.