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Commutative and Noncommutative Invariant Theory

Rings and Algebras 2023-02-21 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

The purpose of this survey paper is to bring to a large mathematical audience (containing also non-algebraists) some topics of invariant theory both in the classical commutative and the recent noncommutative case. We have included only several topics from the classical invariant theory -- the finite generating (the Endlichkeitssatz) and the finite presenting (the Basissatz) of the algebra of invariants, the Molien formula for its Hilbert series and the Shephard-Todd-Chevalley theorem for the invariants of a finite group generated by pseudo-reflections. Then we give analogues of these results for free and relatively free associative and Lie algebras. Finally we deal with the algebra of generic matrices and the invariant theory related with it.

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@article{arxiv.2302.10052,
  title  = {Commutative and Noncommutative Invariant Theory},
  author = {Vesselin Drensky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10052},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This is an extended version of an invited talk presented at the 24-th Spring Conference of the Union of the Bulgarian Mathematicians, Svishtov, April 4-7, 1995

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