Cocharacters of upper triangular matrices

Document Type : Ischia Group Theory 2012

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Universita; degli Studi di Bari, II facolta; di scienze, Taranto

Abstract

We survey some recent results on cocharacters of upper triangular matrices‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎we deal both with ordinary and graded cocharacter sequence; we list the principal combinatorial results; we show different techniques in order to solve similar problems‎.

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