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L. G. KOVÁCS’ WORK ON LIE POWERS

Part of: Linear algebraic groups and related topics Representation theory of groups Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2015

MARIANNE JOHNSON
MARIANNE JOHNSON*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK email marianne.johnson@maths.manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

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From the mid-1990s onwards, the main focus of L. G. Kovács’ research was on Lie powers. This brief survey presents some of the key results on Lie powers obtained by Kovács and his collaborators, and discusses some subsequent developments and applications of this work.

Keywords

Lie powersmodular representationsintegral representations

MSC classification

Primary: 20G05: Representation theory
Secondary: 17B01: Identities, free Lie (super)algebras 20C20: Modular representations and characters 20C10: Integral representations of finite groups
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 102 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 9 - 19
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© 2015 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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