Rahul Pandharipande : Quivers, curves and the tropical vertex group

Posted by , part of the Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

At

Sept. 3, 2009, 4 p.m.

In

SEO 636

Abstract

Elements of the tropical vertex group are formal families of symplectomorphisms of the 2-dimensional algebraic torus. I will talk about commutators in the tropical vertex group and their relationship to quivers and curve counts. The latter is joint work with Gross and Siebert.