Introductory Workshop: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry: "How to enhance categories, and why"
Presenter
February 6, 2024
Keywords:
- Noncommutative geometry
- derived categories
- Derived Algebraic Geometry
- Infinity Categories
- Deformation Theory
- Categorical Resolutions
- noncommutative resolutions
Abstract
It has become accepted wisdom by now that when you localize a category with respect to a class of morphisms, what you get is not just a category but a category "with a homotopical enhancement". Typically, the latter is made precise through the machinery of "infinity-categories", or "quasicategories", but this is quite heavy technically and not really optimal from the conceptual point of view. I am going to sketch an alternative technique based on Grothendieck's idea of a "derivator".