University of Sydney Algebra Seminar

Alistair Savage (University of Ottawa)

Friday 21 February, 12-1pm, Place: Carslaw 175

Quantum affine wreath algebras

To each symmetric algebra we associate a family of algebras that we call quantum affine wreath algebras. The definition of these algebras is motivated by constructions in Heisenberg categorification. They can be viewed both as symmetric algebra deformations of affine Hecke algebras of type A and as quantum deformations of affine wreath algebras. Special cases include affine Yokonuma-Hecke algebras, and quantum deformations of affine zigzag algebras. This is joint work with Daniele Rosso.