3-Hilbert space
Organizers
Speaker
Quan Chen
Time
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Venue
A3-3-301
Online
Zoom 242 742 6089
(BIMSA)
Abstract
We propose a manifestly unitary construction of 3-Hilbert spaces from Baez's 2-Hilbert spaces by higher idempotent completion, analog to the inductive construction of 3-vector spaces. This talk is based on the joint work arXiv: 2410.05120 and 2105.12010.
Speaker Intro
Quan Chen is a postdoctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University, where he began his position in Fall 2023 under the mentorship of Professor Dietmar Bisch. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from The Ohio State University in Spring 2023, working under the supervision of Professor David Penneys. His research interests lie in the areas of operator algebras, subfactor theory, and quantum algebra.