Non-commutative desingularizations and MCM modules I
Presenter
January 31, 2013
Keywords:
- noncommutative algebraic geometry
- D-modules
- deformation quantization
- derived categories
- resolution of singularities
- Cohen-Macaulay modules
- McKay correspondence
- Dynkin diagram classifications
MSC:
- 13D09
- 13D10
- 13Dxx
- 13-xx
- 14Fxx
- 14F05
- 14F10
- 14A22
- 16E65
Abstract
I will describe some recent work on non-commutative analogs of resolutions of singularities, with a focus on the contribution made by maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules. This will include an overview of some approaches to non-commutative desingularizations in general, with specific attention to Van den Bergh's definition of a non-commutative crepant resolution. A key motivating example is Auslander's algebraic McKay correspondence between MCM modules over the Kleinian singularities, skew group rings of the binary polyhedral groups, and the affine ADE Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams.