Munich Representation Theory Days

December 8 - December 9, 2009
Technische Universität München




Confirmed Speakers:
  • Frank Himstedt (TUM)
  • Bernt Jensen (Paris)
  • Aram Mikaelian (Oxford)
  • Markus Schmidmeier (Fau, Florida)
  • Hans-Jürgen Schneider (LMU)


  • Programm:
    Tuesday 8th December:
    14:00 -- 15:00: Schmidmeier. Invariant subspaces and their invariants.
    15:00 -- 15:30: Coffee break
    15:30 -- 16:15: Himstedt. Generic character tables of parabolic subgroups.
    16:15 -- 17:00: Schneider. Representation theory of pointed Hopf algebras and generalized quantum groups I

    Wednesday 9th December:
    09:00 -- 10:00: Jensen. Generic orbits for the adjoint action of automorphism groups of projective representations
    10:00 -- 10:30: Coffee break
    10:30 -- 11:15: Mikaelian. Generalised string modules and periodicity
    11:15 -- 12:00: Schneider. Representation theory of pointed Hopf algebras and generalized quantum groups II

    (Afterwards: Lunch in the Mathematics and Computer Science Building)


    Location: Lectures take place in the Department for Mathematics and Computer Science, Boltzmannstrasse 3, Garching. On Tuesday the first lecture takes place in Room 00.10.011; after the coffee break, the lectures take place in Room 02.08.020. On Wednesday the lectures take place in Room 00.10.011.




    ABSTRACTS:

    Generic orbits for the adjoint action of automorphism groups of projective representations (Jensen)
    We study generic orbits for the adjoint action of an automorphism group of a projective representation of a quiver without oriented cycles. In particular, we consider the problem of deciding when there exists a dense open orbit. We show that there exists a dense open orbit if and only if the quiver is of Dynkin type.

    Generalised string modules and periodicity (Mikaelian)
    We consider the \Omega-translates of the p-permutation modules for Young subgroups of some S_n over a field of charateristic $p$. These play an important role in homology. After a discussion of the general theory of the so called \Omega-periodic $p$-permutation modules of a general finite group $G$ we consider a case when those modules are not periodic. This case is G=S_p\times S_p, and it turns out that in this case the \Omega-translates of p-permutation modules have particularly nice structural properties which we describe in detail. This is done by giving a more general construction, that of the Generalised String Modules.

    Invariant subspaces and their invariants (Schmidmeier)
    Subspaces of vector spaces which are invariant under the action of a linear operator have found a lot of interest since the late 19th century:  In the Jordan Normal Form Theorem, vector spaces are decomposed as a direct sum of cyclic invariant subspaces.  In case the base field is finite, the invariant subspaces can be counted (Steinitz, 1910; Hall, Green, Klein, 1968); one can try to classify them up to isomorphy (hard) (Birkhoff, 1934), or study their projective variety (Baer, 1942). In my talk I want to discuss combinatorial isomorphism invariants which are based on partitions.  A particular role play the Klein tableaux as they link the counting problem, the classification up to isomorphy, and the geometric approch.