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Quiver mutation and quantum dilogarithm identities November 26, 2012 (04:10pm PST - 05:00pm PST)
Location: UC Berkeley
Speaker(s) Bernhard Keller
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A quiver is an oriented graph. Quiver mutation is an elementary operation on
quivers which appeared in physics in Seiberg duality in the 1990s and in mathematics in Fomin-Zelevinsky's definition of cluster algebras in 2002. In this talk, I will show how, by comparing sequences of quiver mutations, one can construct identities between products of quantum dilogarithm series. These identities generalize Faddeev-Kashaev-Volkov's classical pentagon identity and the identities obtained by Reineke. Morally, the new identities follow from Kontsevich-Soibelman's theory of Donaldson-Thomas invariants. They can be proved rigorously using the theory linking cluster algebras to quiver representations.

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