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Knots in Washington XXXIV; Categorification of Knots, Quantum Invariants and Quantum Computing
March 14-16, 2012
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU),Mark Kidwell (U.S. Naval Academy and GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Categorification of Generalized Jones-Wenzl Projectors
by
Matt Hogancamp
University of Virginia
Coauthors: Benjamin Cooper

The projections of tensor powers of the fundamental representation of quantum sl_2 onto the symmetric powers are called the Jones-Wenzl projectors. These have important applications to topology and have been categorified by previous authors. In this talk, we discuss a categorification of the entire decomposition of these tensor powers into irreducibles, and applications. This is joint work with Ben Cooper.

Date received: March 1, 2012

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