Howe Duality for Lie superalgebras

Seminar: 
Algebra and Lie Groups
Event time: 
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 9:45am to 10:45am
Location: 
206 LOM
Speaker: 
Jose Rodrigo Cervantes
Speaker affiliation: 
Ohio-State University
Event description: 

Following the work of Shun-Jen Cheng and Weiqiang Wang, we will discuss the Howe-Duality for a pair of Lie superalgebras and work out some explicit formulas for the highest-weight vectors in the case of the pair of a general Lie algebra and a general Lie superalgebra.