Young Diagrams and Classical Groups

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Authors John Baez

Publication date 15 February 2023

Abstract: Young diagrams are ubiquitous in combinatorics and representation theory. Here we explain these diagrams, focusing on how they are used to classify representations of the symmetric groups $S_n$ and various "classical groups": famous groups of matrices such as the general linear group $mathrmGL(n,mathbbC)$ consisting of all invertible $nimesn$ complex matrices, the special linear group $mathrmSL(n,mathbbC)$ consisting of all $nimesn$ complex matrices with determinant 1, the group $mathrmU(n)$ consisting of all unitary $nimesn$ matrices, and the special unitary group $mathrmSU(n)$ consisting of all unitary $nimesn$ matrices with determinant 1. We also discuss representations of the full linear monoid consisting of all linear transformations of $mathbb{C}^n$. These notes, based on the column This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics, are made to accompany a series of lecture videos.

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