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THE WORK OF L. G. KOVÁCS ON REPRESENTATION THEORY

Part of: Representation theory of groups Structure and classification of infinite or finite groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2015

GEOFFREY R. ROBINSON
GEOFFREY R. ROBINSON*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Fraser Noble Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK email g.r.robinson@abdn.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We discuss some of the work of Laci Kovács on representation theory and related topics.

Keywords

groupsrepresentationsconjugacy classes

MSC classification

Secondary: 20C05: Group rings of finite groups and their modules 20C15: Ordinary representations and characters 20C20: Modular representations and characters 20E45: Conjugacy classes
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 102 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 34 - 42
Copyright
© 2015 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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