Colloquium in Honour of Lutz Hille

Lutz Hille (Photo: Eleonore Faber)

There will be a colloquium at Bielefeld University in honour of Lutz Hille on the occasion of his 60th birthday, featuring his broad interest in representation theory of finite dimensional algebras and algebraic geometry.

Location: Bielefeld University. All talks are given in room V2-210/216, the coffee break takes place in room V3-201.

Date: Friday 15 November 2024

Programme: Three talks will be given in the afternoon, and there will be a social dinner in the evening. Please see the detailed programme for more information.

Registration: There is no formal registration, but we appreciate a short message to Melanie Kreimeyer (at sekalgebra) if you plan to come. Please indicate if you wish to join for the social dinner.

Organisers: William Crawley-Boevey and Henning Krause

Speakers

• Klaus Altmann (Berlin)
• Severin Barmeier (Cologne)
• Eleonore Faber (Graz, Leeds)

Programme

Abstracts

Klaus Altmann (Berlin)
The structure of full exceptional sequences of line bundles on toric varieties of Picard rank two

For a smooth projective toric variety of Picard rank two we classify all exceptional sequences of invertible sheaves which have maximal length. In particular, we prove that unlike non-maximal sequences, they

1. remain exceptional under lexicographical reordering
2. satisfy strong height constraints in the Picard lattice
3. are full, that is, they generate the derived category of the variety.

Moreover, we determine the exceptional poset of those sequences and show how this poset governs the property "strongly exceptional".
(This is joint work with Frederik Witt, Stuttgart; see ALCO = Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 7 (2024) no. 4, pp. 1039-1074)

Severin Barmeier (Cologne)
Associative algebras from Fukaya categories

Tilting theory is a classical subject linking algebraic geometry and representation theory. For example, a result of Hille and Perling establishes the existence of a tilting bundle on any rational surface which shows that the derived category of coherent sheaves on the surface is equivalent to the derived category of modules over a finite-dimensional quasi-hereditary algebra.
In this talk I will pursue a similar idea linking representation theory and symplectic geometry. More concretely, I will explain how formal generators of partially wrapped Fukaya categories of orbifold surfaces give rise to new classes of derived tame finite-dimensional algebras which conjecturally describe the full class of algebras which are derived equivalent to skew-gentle algebras. These algebras also admit an explicit description via quivers with relations and although they are generally ℤ-graded, when concentrated in degree 0, they fall squarely into the domain of representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras just as in the case of tilting theory.

Eleonore Faber (Graz, Leeds)
Semi-orthogonal decompositions of the category of equivariant coherent sheaves for some complex reflection groups via the McKay correspondence

This talk is about an extension of the derived McKay correspondence for finite subgroups of SU(2) to complex reflection groups of rank 2 generated by reflections of order 2: The classical McKay correspondence connects the representation theory of a finite group in SU(2) and the geometry of the exceptional divisor of the minimal resolution of the corresponding quotient singularity. Kapranov and Vasserot showed that this may be realized as a derived equivalence between the derived category of coherent sheaves on the minimal resolution, and the derived category of equivariant coherent sheaves on the two-dimensional vector space the group is acting on. On the other hand, for a complex reflection group of rank 2 generated by order 2 reflections, the quotient is smooth. Using that each such reflection group contains a distinct subgroup of SU(2) as a subgroup of index 2, we derive a semi-orthogonal decomposition of the category of equivariant coherent sheaves, where the derived category of the quotient is one piece, and the other pieces are coming from branch divisors and exceptional objects. In particular, the total number of pieces of this decomposition is equal to the number of irreducible representations of the reflection group and it can be related to the (conjectured) motivic semi-orthogonal decomposition of the derived categories of equivariant coherent sheaves for the reflection groups of Polishchuk and Van den Bergh. This is joint work with A. Bhaduri, Y. Davidov, K. Honigs, P. MacDonald, E. Overton-Walker, and D. Spence.

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Contact

If you have any questions about the colloquium, please contact the organisers at birep.