Grant: Canada Research Chairs

There are many important objects in algebraic geometry and representation theory ("triangulated categories") whose structure is typically very complicated, and which are therefore difficult to study directly. I plan to study them by drawing connections to better-understood topics, such as symmetry (in more technical language, "root systems" and "Weyl groups"). Conversely, I also hope that some phenomena arising in the simple ("combinatorial") settings, may be explained by interpreting them in terms of triangulated categories. The possible connections between these two areas of mathematics have so far received insufficient attention, so now is an ideal time to pursue this research program.