Reflection Theory of Nichols Algebras over Coquasi-Hopf Algebras with Bijective Antipode

This paper generalizes the reflection theory of Nichols algebras to arbitrary coquasi-Hopf algebras with bijective antipode by establishing a braided monoidal equivalence that links finite-dimensional irreducible Yetter-Drinfeld modules admitting all reflections to semi-Cartan graphs, a framework applied to prove that a specific rank three example constitutes an affine Nichols algebra.

Bowen Li, Gongxiang Liu2026-03-06🔢 math

Invariants of surfaces in smooth 4-manifolds from link homology

This paper constructs analogs of Khovanov-Jacobsson classes and the Rasmussen invariant for links in the boundary of smooth oriented 4-manifolds by utilizing skein lasagna modules derived from equivariant and deformed glN\mathfrak{gl}_N link homology, while establishing non-vanishing results, decomposition theorems, and conditions for extending functoriality to immersed cobordisms.

Kim Morrison, Kevin Walker, Paul Wedrich2026-03-06🔢 math

Quivers and BPS states in 3d and 4d

This paper proposes and rigorously establishes a symmetrization relation between 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 BPS quivers and 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 symmetric quivers, demonstrating that the wall-crossing structure of 4d Argyres-Douglas theories is isomorphic to the unlinking of their 3d counterparts and that these symmetric quivers successfully capture the Schur indices of the original 4d theories.

Piotr Kucharski, Pietro Longhi, Dmitry Noshchenko + 2 more2026-03-06🔬 physics

Formal multiparameter quantum groups, deformations and specializations

This paper introduces formal multiparameter quantum universal enveloping algebras (FoMpQUEA) as a generalization of Drinfeld's quantum groups, demonstrating that they are closed under toral twists and 2-cocycle deformations, establish a bijective correspondence with multiparameter Lie bialgebras via quantization and semiclassical limits, and prove that specialization and deformation processes commute.

Gastón Andrés García, Fabio Gavarini2026-03-06🔬 physics

Degenerations of CoHAs of 2-Calabi-Yau categories

This paper establishes that the degenerations of cohomological Hall algebras associated with 2-Calabi-Yau categories and preprojective algebras, with respect to the "less perverse" filtration, are isomorphic to the enveloping algebra of the current Lie algebra of the BPS Lie algebra, a result proven at the sheafified level and extended to torus-deformed settings to connect these structures with Maulik-Okounkov Yangians.

Lucien Hennecart, Shivang Jindal2026-03-05🔢 math

Cohomological Hall algebras of one-dimensional sheaves on surfaces and Yangians

This paper establishes an explicit isomorphism between the equivariant nilpotent cohomological Hall algebra of one-dimensional sheaves on a surface resolving a Kleinian singularity and a completed positive half of the affine Yangian of the corresponding ADE Lie algebra, utilizing continuity theorems for tt-structures and multi-parameter Yangian definitions to characterize the algebra of cohomological Hecke operators.

Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Mauro Porta, Francesco Sala + 2 more2026-03-05🔬 physics