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Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Hecke algebras via Morse theory of loop spaces

Roman Krutowski (UCLA)

Location:  Hill 525
Date & time: Friday, 10 October 2025 at 12:30PM - 1:30PM

Abstract: Higher-dimensional Heegaard Floer homology (HDHF) is defined by extending Lipshitz's cylindrical reformulation of Heegaard Floer homology from surfaces to arbitrary Liouville domains. The HDHF also serves as a model for Lagrangian Floer homology of symmetric products.

In this talk, I will present a Morse-theoretic model allowing for computations of the HDHF A_infty-algebra of k cotangent fibers in the cotangent bundle of a smooth manifold. We apply this model to get an explicit computation of this A_infty-algebra for the cotangent bundle of the 2-dimensional sphere. The result of this computation produces a differential graded algebra which may be regarded as the derived HOMFLYPT skein algebra of the sphere.

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