18.712 Introduction to Representation Theory, Fall 2008

Etingof, Pavel

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Etingof, Pavel

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Introduction to Representation Theory

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Abstract

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

2008-12

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74129

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics

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18.712-Fall2008

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local: IMSCP-MD5-0ecb512da90acfef47d483ce9ce6927e

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

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