MATH Seminar
| Title: Representation theory: a brief introduction from the sl(n) perspective |
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| Seminar: Algebra |
| Speaker: Julie Beier of Mercer University |
| Contact: Skip Garibaldi, skip@mathcs.emory.edu |
| Date: 2009-03-24 at 3:00PM |
| Venue: MSC W303 |
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| Abstract: Representation theory can be simply defined as the study of the ways a group acts on a vector space. A large piece of this process involves understanding weight spaces, particularly irreducible highest weight spaces. We will explore weight spaces of irreducible representations by looking at $sl(n, \mathbf{C})$, $U_q(sl(n))$ and $U_q(\widehat{sl}(n))$. As the structure of the space becomes more complicated we utilize different combinatorics to understand these irreducible, highest weight spaces. |
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