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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788787203321

Titolo

Invariant theory : proceedings of an AMS special session held October 31-November 1, 1986 / / R. Fossum [and three others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1989]

©1989

ISBN

0-8218-7676-7

0-8218-5094-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (610 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; volume 88

Disciplina

512/.5

Soggetti

Invariants

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Invariant Theory ... held at the 830th meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Denton, Texas"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Equivariant completions of affine varieties with group action""; ""Analytic questions in geometric invariant theory""; ""Equivariant intersection cohomology�a survey""; ""Invariants of affine group schemes""; ""The number of invariants""; ""The canonical module of a ring of invariants""; ""On Licci ideals""; ""Reduced normal cones are domains""; ""Prime ideals and group actions in non-commutative algebras""; ""Invariant theory and special functions""; ""Interconnections between symplectic and orthogonal characters""

""A combinatorial theory for rational actions of GLn""""Pieri's formulas for classical groups""; ""Submodules of symmetric powers of the natural module for GLn""; ""A new proof of old character formulas""; ""Resolutions of representations""; ""Jacobi-Trudi and Giambelli identities in characteristic-free form""; ""One dimensional formal group actions""; ""0. Introduction""; ""I. One dimensional formal groups""; ""II. Functorial properties""; ""III. Green's product formulas for an arbitrary formal group law""; ""IV. The structure of the representation ring""