Algebra seminar by Marc Cabanes

All members of the department are welcome: undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs, teaching staff, technical staff - anyone who would like to attend and learn a little bit about what our speakers do in their research career. Members from other disciplines within the School, and the wider University community, are also welcome to attend.

All PhD students in Chemistry are expected to attend as part of their PhD training.

27 October 2011, 16:15

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Cubic Hecke Algebras and some quotients.

We study certain quotients of the group algebra of the braid group introduced by L. Funar (1995). By methods from the modular representation of finite groups, one may show that those collapse in characteristic distinct from 2. In characteristic 2 we can define several quotients related to the classical Hecke and Birman-Wenzl-Murakami quotients, but which admit in addition a symmetry of order 3. We also establish conditions on the possible Markov traces factorizing through them. This is a joint work with Ivan Marin (Paris).

Speaker: Marc Cabanes (Paris)