Abstract:
Chris Fraser has discovered a natural birational action of the extended affine braid group on d strands on the Grassmannian of k-dimensional subspaces in n-dimensional space. Here, the integer d is the greatest common divisor of k and n and the action is via cluster transformations. In joint work with Fraser, we have shown how this action lifts to Jensen–King-Su's additive categorification of the Grassmannian. We will explain how it fits into the theory of (relative) Calabi–Yau structures and (relative) Calabi–Yau completions due to Ginzburg, …, Toën, Brav–Dyckerhoff and Yeung.