Representation theory studies the ways in which abstract algebraic objects—groups, rings, algebras and categories—can act by linear transformations on vector spaces or modules. By encoding an ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...
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