Toric Degeneration of Flag Algebras and Branching Rules

Seminar: 
Algebra and Lie Groups
Event time: 
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - 10:45am to Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 8:00pm
Location: 
431DL
Speaker: 
Sangjib Kim
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

We will discuss toric degeneration of the ring of regular functions on $G/U$ in the case when $G$ is $GL(n, C)$ or $Sp(2n, C($ and $U$ is its maximal unipotent subgroup. In particular, we will present how Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns can be acquired in this degeneration.