Hecke algebras and Schur algebras of the symmetric group

Author

Andrew Mathas

Status

Research Report 98-13
Date: 24 June 1998
Status: This report was a preliminary version of a book published by the AMS.

Abstract

These notes give a fully self-contained introduction to the (modular) representation theory of the Iwahori-Hecke algebras and the q-Schur algebras of the symmetric groups. The central aim of this work is to give a concise, but complete, and an elegant, yet quick, treatment of the classification of the simple modules and of the blocks of these two important classes of algebras. Our approach is combinatorial in nature and is based upon the construction of (cellular) bases which are particularly well adapted to the representation theory.

Key phrases

Iwahori-Hecke algebras. q-Schur algebras. cellular algebras.

AMS Subject Classification (1991)

Primary: 20C30, 16G99
Secondary: 05E10, 20G05, 20C20

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