# Tag:quivers

• ## what have quivers done to students?

A few years ago a student entered my office asking suggestions for his master thesis. “I’m open to any topic as long as it has nothing to do with those silly quivers!” At that time not the best of opening-lines to address me and, inevitably, the most disastrous teacher-student-conversation-ever followed (also on my part, i’m […]

• ## what does the monster see?

The Monster is the largest of the 26 sporadic simple groups and has order 808 017 424 794 512 875 886 459 904 961 710 757 005 754 368 000 000 000 = 2^46 3^20 5^9 7^6 11^2 13^3 17 19 23 29 31 41 47 59 71. It is not so much the size…

• ## Quiver-superpotentials

It’s been a while, so let’s include a recap : a (transitive) permutation representation of the modular group $\Gamma = PSL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ is determined by the conjugacy class of a cofinite subgroup $\Lambda \subset \Gamma$, or equivalently, to a dessin d’enfant. We have introduced a quiver (aka an oriented graph) which comes from a…

• ## quivers versus quilts

We have associated to a subgroup of the modular group $PSL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ a quiver (that is, an oriented graph). For example, one verifies that the fundamental domain of the subgroup $\Gamma_0(2)$ (an index 3 subgroup) is depicted on the right by the region between the thick lines with the identification of edges as indicated.…

• ## the modular group and superpotentials (2)

Last time we have that that one can represent (the conjugacy class of) a finite index subgroup of the modular group $\Gamma = PSL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ by a Farey symbol or by a dessin or by its fundamental domain. Today we will associate a quiver to it. For example, the modular group itself is represented by…

• ## Superpotentials and Calabi-Yaus

Yesterday, Jan Stienstra gave a talk at theARTS entitled “Quivers, superpotentials and Dimer Models”. He started off by telling that the talk was based on a paper he put on the arXiv Hypergeometric Systems in two Variables, Quivers, Dimers and Dessins d’Enfants but that he was not going to say a thing about dessins but…

• ## M-geometry (1)

Take an affine $\mathbb{C}$-algebra A (not necessarily commutative). We will assign to it a strange object called the tangent-quiver $\vec{t}~A$, compute it in a few examples and later show how it connects with existing theory and how it can be used. This series of posts can be seen as the promised notes of…

• ## down with determinants

The categorical cafe has a guest post by Tom Leinster Linear Algebra Done Right on the book with the same title by Sheldon Axler. I haven’t read the book but glanced through his online paper Down with determinants!. Here is ‘his’ proof of the fact that any n by n matrix A has at least…

• ## recap and outlook

After a lengthy spring-break, let us continue with our course on noncommutative geometry and $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$-representations. Last time, we have explained Grothendiecks mantra that all algebraic curves defined over number fields are contained in the profinite compactification $\widehat{SL_2(\mathbb{Z})} = \underset{\leftarrow}{lim}~SL_2(\mathbb{Z})/N$ of the modular group $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ and in the knowledge of a certain subgroup…

• ## master class 2007

Next week our master programme on noncommutative geometry will start. Here is the list of all international mini-courses (8 hours each) and firm or tentative dates. For the latest update, it is always best to check with the Arts seminar website. Hans-Juergen Schneider (Munich) “Hopf Galois extensions and quotient theory of Hopf algebras”. February 20-23…