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Grad Student Seminar: The affine Grassmannian for GL_n October 03, 2014 (01:30 PM PDT - 02:30 PM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Speaker(s) Yotam Hendel (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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We give descriptions of sheaves as functors of points and fpqc descent. We define the affine Grassmannian for GL_n, discuss gluing (the Beauville-Laszlo Theorem), and explain how the local and global versions of the affine Grassmannian for GL_n coincide.

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