Wolfgang Soergel: Geometric interpretation of the homotopy category of special bimodules

Geometric interpretation of the homotopy category of special bimodules through mixed Tate motives
27 September 2021

Please note that audio begins at ~2:20 into the recording.

Abstract: Six-functor-formalisms without extensions between Tate motives give particularily nice tilting equivalences between equivariant derived categories and algebraic structures. This leads to a natural geometric interpetation of Khovanov Kohomology (with M. Wendt and R. Virk).

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