Grothendieck ring of category O for shifted Yangians and the infinite Bott-Samelson variety
Speaker:
Joel Kamnitzer (McGill)
Date and Time:
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 309
Abstract:
Shifted Yangians are a family of algebras which can be used to quantize slices in the affine Grassmannian. They admit a family of coproducts which makes the direct sum of their category Os into a monoidal category. I will give a description of the Grothendieck ring of this monoidal category. In particular, I will explain that it is isomorphic to the Cox ring of an infinite Bott-Samelson variety.

