Normalizers and p-normalizers of maximal tori in p-compact groups can be characterized by the Euler characteristic of the associated homogeneous spaces. Applied to centralizers of elementary abelian p-groups these criteria show that the normalizer of a maximal torus of the centralizer is given by the centralizer of a preferred homomorphism to the normalizer of the maximal torus; i.e. that “norm...

The centralizer of a set of words X is the largest set of words C(X) commuting with X: XC(X) = C(X)X. It has been a long standing open question due to Conway, 1971, whether the centralizer of any rational set is rational. While the answer turned out to be negative in general, see Kunc 2004, we prove here that the situation is different for codes: the centralizer of any rational code is rational...

Let g be a complex semisimple Lie algebra, and let G be a complex semisimple group with trivial center whose root system is dual to that of g. We establish a graded algebra isomorphism H q (Xλ,C) ∼= Sg e/Iλ, where Xλ is an arbitrary spherical Schubert variety in the loop Grassmannian for G, and Iλ is an appropriate ideal in the symmetric algebra of g, the centralizer of a principal nilpotent in...

Recommended reading 2 1. The poster child of CRT: the symmetric group 2 1.1. Our best chance of understanding big bad algebraic structures: representations! 3 1.2. Where is this all going? 6 2. Lie algebras 7 2.1. Favorite Examples 7 2.2. Categories, Functors, and the Universal Enveloping Algebra 9 3. Representations of g: a first try 10 3.1. Dual spaces and Hopf algebras: lessons from Group th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A proximal stem centralizer may be beneficial regarding cementing pressures, cement penetration, and stem alignment. We measured these parameters when cementing a mat-surfaced femoral component with and without the use of a proximal stem centralizer. MATERIAL AND METHODS 8 femoral prostheses with proximal centralizers and 8 femoral prostheses without proximal centralize...

The normalizer of an element of a group is defined as the subgroup of all elements commuting with it; this subgroup is often also called the centralizer of the given element. In the second version [F-GM] the authors switched to the latter terminology, and we will also use the term “centralizer”. The conjecture was supported by a new algorithm for finding generators of a centralizer, suggested i...

In this paper, we establish Schur-Weyl reciprocity for the q-analogue of the alternating group. We analyze the sign q-permutation representation of the Hecke algebra HQ(q),r(q) on the rth tensor product of Z2-graded Q-vector space V = V0⊗V1 in detail, and examine its restriction to the qanalogue of the alternating group H1Q(q),r(q). In consequence, we find out that if dimV0 = dimV1, then the ce...