Perverse schobers in representation theory and its applications
Time: 2026-05-11
Published By: Ruixin Li
Speaker(s): Li Fan (Tsinghua University)
Time: 14:00-15:00 May 14, 2026
Venue: Room 78201, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMR
Abstract: Perverse schobers, introduced by Kapranov and Schechtman, are a conjectural categorification of perverse sheaves. In this talk, we will present Merlin Christ’s framework for perverse schobers parametrized by spanning ribbon graphs embedded in surfaces with boundary, formulated in terms of constructible sheaves of stable ∞-categories. It can provide an ∞-category of global sections of perverse schober supported on a ribbon graph, and describe the monodromy around the singularities. As an application, we also use perverse schobers to study the space of stability conditions on triangulated categories.
