| Speaker: | Nathan Broomhead (Leibniz University) |
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| Title: | Dimer models and noncommutative crepant resolutions |
| Date (JST): | Mon, Oct 04, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00 |
| Place: | Seminar Room A |
| Abstract: |
(Part 1) Dimer models, as studied in theoretical physics, can be used to produce non-commutative crepant resolutions (NCCRs) of all Gorenstein 3-fold affine toric singularities. In this first section I will give an overview of this result. In particular I shall try to explain some of the intuition behind NCCRs and introduce via examples, dimers and their corresponding toric varieties. (Part 2) In this section I will talk in more detail about some of the key ingredients in the proof. I shall introduce noncommutative toric algebras and discuss some of their properties. I will talk in more detail about some of the 'consistency' conditions which can be placed on a dimer model and I shall explain a bit about Calabi-Yau algebras and how these relate to NCCRs. Finally I will briefly mention some work in progress to find NCCRs in a slightly more general toric setting. |
