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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Representation Theory

Wee Teck Gan

UCSD

Exceptional theta correspondences over finite fields

Abstract:

If $G_1 x G_2$ is a subgroup of a finite group $H$, one can restrict a representation of $H$ to $G_1 x G_2$ and examine how it decomposes. One obtains in this way a function from irreducible representations of $G_1$ to (possibly reducible, possibly zero) representations of $G_2$. In certain cases, this function turns out to be very nice. We examine a particular case of this, when the groups involved are finite groups of Lie type. A large portion of the talk will be on recalling the classification of irreducible representations of such groups due to Deligne-Lusztig and Lusztig.

Host: K. Baur

November 9, 2004

2:00 PM

AP&M 7321

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