Chern Classes of Certain Representations of Symmetric Groups

Decomposing Symmetric Powers of Certain Modular Representations of Cyclic Groups

For a prime number p, we construct a generating set for the ring of invariants for the p+1 dimensional indecomposable modular representation of a cyclic group of order p. We then use the constructed invariants to describe the decomposition of the symmetric algebra as a module over the group ring, confirming the Periodicity Conjecture of Ian Hughes and Gregor Kemper for this case.

Representations of symmetric groups

In this thesis we study the ordinary and the modular representation theory of the symmetric group. In particular we focus our work on different important open questions in the area. 1. Foulkes’ Conjecture In Chapter 2 we focus our attention on the long standing open problem known as Foulkes’ Conjecture. We use methods from character theory of symmetric groups to determine new information on the...

Representations of Symmetric Groups

A surprising theorem in the modular representation theory of symmetric groups uses induction and restriction functors to define an action of an affine Kac-Moody special linear algebra on the level of Grothendieck groups. This action identifies the direct sum of Grothendieck groups with an integrable highest weight module of the Kac-Moody algebra. The purpose of this write-up is to provide a gen...

Chern classes of compactifications of reductive groups

In this paper, I construct noncompact analogs of the Chern classes of equivariant vector bundles over complex reductive groups. Then “Chern classes” of the tangent bundle are used to carry over to the case of an arbitrary reductive group some of the well-known results that hold for a complex torus. One of the results of this paper is a formula for the Chern classes of all regular equivariant co...

Profinite Chern Classes for Group Representations