Higher structures in geometry and mathematical physics
Date
May 25, Monday, 10:30--11:30, 2026
Place
Room 206, RIMS
Speaker
Wenda Fang (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Title
QP Structures, Poisson Vertex Algebras, and Applications to Integrable Systems
Abstract
In this talk, I will discuss classical (R)-matrices for Lie conformal algebras from the viewpoint of QP-geometry. I will explain how this perspective leads to a Maurer--Cartan description of such structures, and how it can be used to construct integrable systems via a generalized Adler--Kostant--Symes scheme. As an application, I will present an integrable system of Mumford--Beauville type. I will also briefly mention some ongoing directions related to joint work with Noriaki Ikeda.
Date
May 18, Monday, 10:30--11:30, 2026
Place
Room 206, RIMS
Speaker
Ryo Hayami (Nagano University)
Title
Lie group-rack triples and Lie-Leibniz triples -with a view towards an integration theory of embedding tensors-
Abstract
Embedding tensors are used in theoretical physics to describe higher
gauge structures which are called tensor hierarchies. To understand
geometric aspects of tensor hierarchies, we should find how to
"integrate" embedding tensors.
A Lie-Leibniz triple is the mathematical formulation of an embedding
tensor. In this talk, I will introduce an integrated object of a
Lie-Leibniz triple, which we call a Lie group-rack triple. I will show
that any real finite-dimensional Lie-Leibniz triple can be integrated to
a local Lie group-rack triple. This integration procedure can be seen as
a generalization of the Bordemann-Wagemann integration of an augmented
Leibniz algebra into an augmented Lie rack.
Date
May 11, Monday, 10:30--11:30, 2026
Place
Room 206, RIMS
Speaker
Naoki Genra (Toyama University)
Title
BRST cohomology for linear quiver gauge theory and associated Poisson vertex algebras
Abstract
BRST cohomology is an analogous method with Hamiltonian reductions to obtain new vertex algebras from given ones. Using the construction of physicists, we give the BRST cohomology vertex algebras of 3d N=4 quiver gauge theory, and compute the associated graded Poisson vertex algebras. Then we show how to relate these Poisson vertex algebras to Higgs branches of linear quiver gauge theory.
Date
April 27, Monday, 10:30--11:30, 2026
Place
Room 206, RIMS
Speaker
Leonid Ryvkin (Claude Bernard University Lyon 1)
Title
Tepui fibrations and singular vector bundles
Abstract
As a differential-geometric object, a tepui fibration is a
type of singular fiber bundle with smooth base space and smooth fibers,
however the fiber dimension might jump when moving from one base point
to another. Tepui fibrations naturally turn up in differential geometry,
when one is quotienting by a smooth family of symmetries, which
degenerates at certain points, e.g. in the context of singular
foliations. In this talk I will give an introduction to tepui fibrations
and show how they provide a natural way to extend the classical
Serre-Swan theorem beyond the setting of projective modules.
Based on joint work with Alfonso Garmendia and David Miyamoto,
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20936.
