Mathematics Colloquium

Friedrich Knop

(Erlangen and Rutgers University)

"Representations of S_t where t is not a natural number"


Date: Mon, March 2, 2009
Time: 17:15
Place: Research II Lecture Hall

Abstract: The group S_n of permutations of n distinct objects plays a fundamental role in group theory, representations theory and numerous applications. What if the number of objects is not an integer?