Association Schemes — Group Theory Without Groups
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Association schemes are a central notion in algebraic combinatorics. They provide a unified approach to various questions from design theory, coding theory, algebraic graph theory, discrete geometry, group theory and representation theory. This is facilitated by viewing ideas from the theory of groups and their representations from a combinatorial perspective, thus leading to a more general picture. The aims of this lecture are to introduce association schemes and the related basic structural notions and to present newer developments, in particular as far as their representation theory is concerned.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009