Abstract:The first part of the talk will be about a new and simplified presentation of the classical pure braid group. Motivated by twist functors from Algebraic geometry, the generators are given by the squares of longest elements over connected subgraphs, and the relations are either commutators or certain length 5 palindromic relations.In the second part of the talk, I will summarise a cons...
AbstractIn this talk we introduce a hybrid quantum group at root of unity. We consider its category O and discuss some basic properties including linkage principle and BGG reciprocity. Then we show that there is an isomorphism between the center of a block (of arbitrary singular type) of the category O with the cohomology ring of the partial affine flag variety (of the corresponding parahoric t...