18.712 Introduction to Representation Theory, Fall 2008
Author(s)
Etingof, Pavel
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Alternative title
Introduction to Representation Theory
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This is a new course, whose goal is to give an undergraduate-level introduction to representation theory (of groups, Lie algebras, and associative algebras). Representation theory is an area of mathematics which, roughly speaking, studies symmetry in linear spaces.
Date issued
2008-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of MathematicsOther identifiers
18.712-Fall2008
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Keywords
finite dimensional algebras, Quiver Representations, series Representations, finite groups, representation theory, Lie algebras, Tensor products, density theorem, Jordan-H?older theorem, Krull-Schmidt theorem, Maschke?s Theorem, Frobenius-Schur indicator, Frobenius divisibility, Burnside?s Theorem