Which in turn means that about 100 years after William Burnside dismissed representation theory as useless, it was a critical component in arguably the most celebrated proof of the 20th century. “I ...

In parallel, representation theory focuses on realising abstract algebraic entities as linear transformations on vector spaces, offering concrete insights into their structure and symmetry.

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Supercharacter Theory: A framework that partitions characters and conjugacy classes of a finite group into larger aggregates known as supercharacters and superclasses, respectively, to simplify ...

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Representation theory's hidden motives. Conference at Münster and Sydney 27 September - 1 October 2021. In recent years, motivic techniques have been applied in several branches of representation ...

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DeepMind’s AI software was given details of the two previously separate components of knot theory – algebraic and geometric – and asked to seek any correlations between them, both ...

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This led him to examine Brauer’s modular representation theory from a different perspective, that of modules (which in a different context had appeared in his thesis) ...