Diagrammatic Algebra provides the intuition and tools necessary to address some of the key questions in modern representation theory, chief among them Lusztig's conjecture. This book offers a largely self-contained introduction to diagrammatic algebra, culminating in an explicit and entirely diagrammatic treatment of Geordie Williamson's explosive torsion counterexamples in full detail.

The book begins with an overview of group theory and representation theory: first encountering Coxeter groups through their actions on puzzles, necklaces, and Platonic solids; then building up to non-semisimple representations of TemperleyLieb and zig-zag algebras; and finally constructing simple representations of binary Schur algebras using the language of coloured Pascal triangles. Next, KazhdanLusztig polynomials are introduced, with their study motivated by their combinatorial properties. The discussion then turns to diagrammatic Hecke categories and their associated p -KazhdanLusztig polynomials, explored in a hands-on manner with numerous examples. The book concludes by showing that the problem of determining the prime divisors of Fibonacci numbers is a special case of the problem of calculating p -KazhdanLusztig polynomialsusing only elementary diagrammatic calculations and some manipulation of (5x5)-matrices.

Richly illustrated and assuming only undergraduate-level linear algebra, this is a particularly accessible introduction to cutting-edge topics in representation theory. The elementary-yet-modern presentation will also be of interest to experts.

An accessible introduction to recent results in modular Lie theory Uses only elementary, diagrammatic techniques Completely self-contained with full details

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Chris Bowman is a Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of York, UK. His research interests lie broadly in combinatorial representation theory, with a particular focus on diagrammatic methods.

Inhalt

Part I: Groups.- 1 Symmetries.- 2 Coxeter groups and the 15 puzzle.- 3 Composition series.- 4 Platonic and Archimedean solids and special orthogonal groups.- Part II: Algebras and representation theory.- 5 Non-invertible symmetry.- 6 Representation theory.- Part III: Combinatorics.- 7 Catalan combinatorics within KazhdanLusztig theory.- 8 General KazhdanLusztig theory.- Part IV: Categorification.- 9 The diagrammatic algebra for S × S S.- 10 Lusztig's conjecture in the diagrammatic algebra H(W,P).- Part V: Group theory versus diagrammatic algebra.- 11 Reformulating Lusztig's and Andersen's conjectures.- 12 Hidden gradings on symmetric groups.- 13 The 𝑝-KazhdanLusztig theory for TemperleyLieb algebras.