ERC Starting Grant · 2020
Non-compact Chern-Simons Theory, Positive Representations, and Cluster Varieties
Over the past 30 years, deep connections between Chern–Simons theory, supersymmetric (SUSY) gauge theory, and representation theory of quantum groups, have caused an avalanche of research in mathematics and physics. In this proposal I use quantum cluster varieties to develop positive representation theory of quantum groups and a non-compact analogue of Chern–Simons theory. I also obtain new invariants of links and 3-manifolds, and establish new connections between SUSY gauge theories and quantum character varieties. This proposal builds on my prior work, where I prove fundamental cases of the Fock–Goncharov modular functor conjecture in higher Teichmüller theory, and Gaiotto’s conjecture on…
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