Skeins, Clusters and Wavefunctions
Speaker(s): Mingyuan Hu (Northwestern University)
Time: 14:00-15:00 December 5, 2023
Venue: Room 29, Quan Zhai, BICMR
I am going to explain how the three words appearing in the title are related. To be more spercific, we consider a type of Lagrangian branes in C^3. Their Ekholm-Shende wavefunctions live in the HOMFLY skein module, encoding open Gromov-Witten invariants in all genus and with arbitrary numbers of boundary components. We develop a skein theoretical cluster theory, prove that these wavefunctions are related to each other under ``cluster mutation'', and hence compute them. This is joint work with Prof. Eric Zaslow and Prof. Gus Schrader.