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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 323


David Swinarski

University of Georgia

Title

Vector bundles of conformal blocks on M 0,n for sl 2 and sl n

Abstract

The WZW model of conformal field theory yields a vector bundle on the moduli space of pointed curves M 0,n depending on a choice of a Lie algebra, a level, and a set of n weights in the corresponding Weyl alcove. Recently, Fakhruddin gave formulas for the Chern classes of these bundles when g=0 and showed they are globally generated. I will discuss recent joint work with Alexeev, Arap, Giansiracusa, Gibney, and Stankewicz on these bundles for sl 2 and sl n . We show that some of these divisors associated to these bundles are extremal in the nef cone and identify the images of the corresponding linear systems.

Algebraic Geometry

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