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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483164703321

Autore

Broue Michel

Titolo

Introduction to complex reflection groups and their braid groups / / Michel Broue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg ; ; New York, : Springer, c2010

ISBN

1-280-39164-2

9786613569561

3-642-11175-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 144 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics, , 1617-9692 ; ; 1988

Classificazione

MAT 203f

SI 850

Disciplina

512.2

Soggetti

Braid theory

Reflection groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries -- Prerequisites and Complements in Commutative Algebra -- Polynomial Invariants of Finite Linear Groups -- Finite Reflection Groups in Characteristic Zero -- Eigenspaces and Regular Elements.

Sommario/riassunto

Weyl groups are particular cases of complex reflection groups, i.e. finite subgroups of GLr(C) generated by (pseudo)reflections. These are groups whose polynomial ring of invariants is a polynomial algebra. It has recently been discovered that complex reflection groups play a key role in the theory of finite reductive groups, giving rise as they do to braid groups and generalized Hecke algebras which govern the representation theory of finite reductive groups. It is now also broadly agreed upon that many of the known properties of Weyl groups can be generalized to complex reflection groups. The purpose of this work is to present a fairly extensive treatment of many basic properties of complex reflection groups (characterization, Steinberg theorem, Gutkin-Opdam matrices, Solomon theorem and applications, etc.) including the basic findings of Springer theory on eigenspaces. In doing so, we also introduce basic definitions and properties of the associated braid groups, as well as a quick introduction to Bessis' lifting of



Springer theory to braid groups.