NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

REPRESENTATION THEORY AND RELATED TOPICS SEMINAR


Victor Protsak

(Cornell University)

Primitive Ideals: from Abstract to Concrete

ABSTRACT:  The set of primitive ideals of the universal enveloping algebra of a complex reductive Lie algebra has been determined in the 1970s and 1980s using a wide array of geometric and algebraic methods. However, the ideals themselves are not quite so easy to pin down. I will review some classical results and present an approach to an explicit, "hands-on" description of primitive ideals based on noncommutative linear algebra. 

November 30, 2007
10:30 - 11:30
511 Lake Hall

For further information visit http://www.northeastern.edu/martsinkovsky/p/rtrt.html  or contact Alex Martsinkovsky alexmart >at< neu >dot< edu