Symmetry, representations, and invariants

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Goodman Roe.
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Wallach Nolan R.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Dordrecht [Netherlands] New York
Publication Dates: c2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Graduate texts in mathematics ; 255
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79852-3
Item Description: Representations and invariants of the classical groups.
Carrier Form: xx, 716 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780387798523 (electronic bk.)
0387798528 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: O152
CLC: O152.6
Contents: "Symmetry, in the title of this book, should be understood as the geometry of Lie (and algebraic) group actions"--P. xv.
"Based on 'Representations and invariants of the classical groups', Roe Goodman and Nolan R. Wallach, Cambridge University Press, 1998, third corrected printing 2003"--Page [iv].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 697-703) and indexes.
Lie groups and algebraic groups -- Structure of classical groups -- Highest-weight theory -- Algebras and representations -- Classical invariant theory -- Spinors -- Character formulas -- Branching laws -- Tensor representations of GL(V) -- Tensor representations of O(V) and Sp(V) -- Algebraic groups and homogeneous spaces -- Representations on spaces of regular functions -- Algebraic geometry -- Linear and multilinear algebra -- Associative algebras and lie algebras - Manifolds and Lie groups.