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# Seminar

A vanishing theorem for D-modules, and applications to t-structures for quantized symplectic varieties February 20, 2013 (03:30 PM PST - 04:30 PM PST)
Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speaker(s) Thomas Nevins (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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D-modules: more precisely, one can construct functors (of quantum Hamiltonian reduction'') from categories of equivariant D-modules to representations of the algebras. I'll describe an effective combinatorial criterion for such functors to vanish on certain equivariant D-modules---equivalently, for certain equivariant D-modules to have no nonzero group-invariant elements. I will also explain consequences of this vanishing criterion for natural t-structures on the derived categories of sheaves over quantum analogs of various interesting symplectic algebraic varieties. Most of the talk will be low-tech and will presume no prior familiarity with the terms mentioned above. This is joint work with Kevin McGerty.