| Speaker: | Ben Davison (Oxford) |
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| Title: | Motivic Donaldson Thomas invariants and the Kontsevich Soibelman integration map (Part I) |
| Date (JST): | Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00 |
| Place: | Seminar Room B |
| Abstract: |
In this talk I will discuss the theory of motivic Donaldson Thomas invariants, as found in the work of Kontsevich and Soibelman. I will discuss the key construction, which is an integration map from moduli spaces of objects in a fixed three-dimensional Calabi-Yau category to a Grothendieck ring of motives. Broadly speaking, I will aim to elucidate this construction via some background and examples in the first part of the talk. These examples include moduli spaces of sheaves over the resolved conifold, (0,-2) curves, quivers with potential and so on. In the background section I will also introduce and discuss some salient aspects of the motivic vanishing cycle construction of Denef and Loeser, as this plays a key role, and discuss a theorem which simplifies this construction in many cases, and a conjecture that simplifies it in many more. |
