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Conference on Knot Theory and Its Applications to Physics and Quantum Computing; 60th birthday of Jozef H. Przytycki
January 6-9, 2015
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UTD) Tobias Hagge (UTD) Valentina S. Harizanov (GWU) Viswanath Ramakrishna (UTD) Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU) Adam S. Sikora (SUNYUB)

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Trace of the categorified quantum groups
by
Anna Beliakova
University of Zurich
Coauthors: Zaur Guliyev, Kazuo Habiro, Aaron Lauda, and Ben Webster

In this talk I will give a gentle introduction to the categorified quantum groups and show that the trace (or 0th Hochschild homology) of the Khovanov-Lauda 2-category is isomorphic to the current algebra. Then I'll discuss some applications of this fact to link homology theories.

Date received: December 3, 2014

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