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Modular representation theory of symmetric groups and their Hecke algebras

Summary

The representation theory of the symmetric groups is a very dynamic and active field with many challenging open problems.

Supervisor

Professor Andrew Mathas.

Research location

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Program type

Masters/PHD

Synopsis

The representation theory of the symmetric group over fields of characteristic zero is very well understood. The irreducible modules and their characters have been completely determined for a long time and few problems remain in this area. On contrast, relatively little is known about the representations of the symmetric groups over fields of positive characteristic. for example, even though we know how to construct all of the irreducible representations over these fields the dimensions of these representations are unknown except in some very special cases. One of the central problems in this area is computing the decomposition matrices which, roughly speaking, describe how the ordinary irreducble representations decompose in positive characteristic.

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 593