School of Mathematics Seminars and Lectures
A PRELUDE ON EXCEPTIONAL GROUPS
by Prof. Nikolai Vavilov (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Thursday, July 11, 2013
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG-77 )
at Colaba Campus ( AG-77 )
Description |
The lecture will cover some preliminaries necessary to follow my lectures (and partly also the lectures by Stepanov and Luzgarev) in the framework of the ATM Workshop on Classical and Non-stable Algebraic K-Theory. I plan to recall realisations of exceptional root systems, relations among elementary generators, specifically coefficients in the Chevalley commutator formula, connections with non-associative algebras, and the like. This elementary lecture is in no way a summary of my lectures next week, it is rather a gentle introduction addressed to those who are familiar with the classical groups, but feel less at home when it comes to the exceptional ones. |