Topology Festival

Mikhail KhovanovColumbia University
How to Category the Ring of Integers with Two Inverted

Sunday, May 13, 2018 - 2:00pm
251 Malott Hall

We will explain how to combine diagrammatic and algebraic constructions to produce a monoidal triangulated category with the Grothendieck ring naturally isomorphic to the ring of integers with inverted two. The talk is based on the joint work with Yin Tian.