Mathematical Physics

Higgs branches in theories with 8 supercharges change as one tunes the gauge coupling to critical values. This talk will focus on six dimensional (0,1) supersymmetric theories in studying the different phenomena associated with such a change. Based on a Type IIA brane system, involving NS5 branes…

Deligne's category $D_t$ is a formal way to define the category of finite-dimensional representations of the group $GL_n$ with $n=t$ being a formal parameter (which can be specialized to any complex number). I will show how to interpolate the construction of the higher Hamiltonians of the Gaudin…

We will discuss some aspects of my recent preprint, joint with Victor Ginzburg, on Kostant-Whittaker reduction, a (deformation) quantization of restriction to a Kostant slice. We will explain how this functor can be used to prove conjectures of Ben-Zvi and Gunningham on parabolic induction, as well…

Skein theory forms a once-categorified 3d TQFT and assigns skein algebras to surfaces and skein modules to 3-manifolds. Motivated by physics, these modules are expected to satisfy a certain holonomicity property, generalizing Witten's finiteness conjecture of skein modules. In this talk, we will…

Chern-Simons theory is a topological quantum field theory which leads to link invariants, such as the Jones polynomial, through the expectation values of Wilson loops. The same link invariants also appear in a mathematical construction of Reshetikhin and Turaev which uses a trace on Yang-Baxter…

The operator algebraic approach to quantum field theory is called algebraic quantum field theory. In this setting, we consider a family of operator algebras generated by observables in spacetime regions. This has been particularly successful in 2-dimensional conformal field theory. We present roles…

I will review some recent progress in derived differential geometry, in particular pertaining to moduli stacks of solutions of elliptic partial differential equations on manifolds (with boundaries, and also with `logarithmic' boundaries, which include, for instance, manifolds with asymptotically…

In this talk, I will discuss how M2-M5 intersections in a twisted M-theory background yield the R-matrices of the quantum toroidal algebra of gl(1). These R-matrices are identified with the Miura operators for the q-deformed W- and Y-algebras. Additionally, I will show how the M2-M5 intersection (or…

In my talk I will explain how to extend the Goncharov-Kenyon class of cluster integrable systems by their Hamiltonian reductions. In particular, this extension allows to fill in the gap in cluster construction of the q-difference Painlev'e equations. Isomorphisms of reduced Goncharov-Kenyon…

Many interesting spaces arise as Coulomb branches of 3d N=4 quiver gauge theories, including nilpotent orbit closures and affine Grassmannian slices. These interesting spaces often admit interesting embeddings into one another. For example, one nilpotent orbit closure might be contained inside…

The Moore-Tachikawa conjecture posits the existence of certain 2-dimensional topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) valued in a category of complex Hamiltonian varieties. Previous work by Ginzburg-Kazhdan and Braverman-Nakajima-Finkelberg has made significant progress toward proving this…

The chiralization in the title denotes a certain procedure which turns cluster X-varieties into q-W algebras. Many important notions from cluster and q-W worlds, such as mutations, global functions, screening operators, R-matrices, etc emerge naturally in this context. In particular, we discover new…