Irreducible factors of modular representations of mapping class groups arising in Integral TQFT

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, April 9, 2012 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Pat Gilmer – Louisiana State University
Organizer
Thang Le
We find decomposition series of length at most two for modular representations in characteristic p of mapping class groups of surfaces induced by an integral version of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev SO(3)-TQFT at the p-th root of unity. This joint work with Gregor Masbaum.