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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 225


David Treumann

Northwestern University

Title

The coherent-constructible correspondence for toric varieties

Abstract

This is a talk on joint work with Bohan Fang, Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, and Eric Zaslow. An equivariant ample line bundle on a toric variety determines a polytope in a real vector space. I will discuss work we have done to extend this familiar correspondence to an equivalence of categories, between the derived category of coherent sheaves on the toric variety and a derived category of polyhedrally-constructible sheaves on the real vector space. Many famous aspects of the dictionary between toric geometry and polyhedral combinatorics are visible in this equivalence. Work of Nadler and Zaslow relates the second category to a Fukaya category of Lagrangian submanifolds of a symplectic vector space. Thus our correspondence can be viewed as a verification–for toric varieties–of a version of Kontsevich’s homological mirror symmetry conjecture.

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