AGANT   SEMINAR

(Algebraic Geometry, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar)

a joint venture of   UNT, UTA and TCU

Date/Time/Room: Thursday May 1, 2003, at 4:00 pm in PKH 487 at UTA
                          Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm.
Speaker: Dimitar Grantcharov Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside

``On the Classification of the Weight Modules of Lie Superalgebras''

Abstract: In the early 20th century Hermann Weyl classified all finite-dimensional representations of the classical Lie algebras in terms of the so-called character formula. The problem of generalizing Weyl's character formula to infinite-dimensional representations turned out to be more difficult. Recently, Olivier Mathieu obtained an explicit classification of the class of infinite-dimensional weight representations using the method of coherent families. In the present talk, I will briefly sketch Mathieu's idea of coherent families and some of its numerous applications.

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