London Algebra Colloquium abstract

Representations of the symmetric group and the Steinberg variety

Kevin R. McGerty (Imperial), 29th November 2007

Abstract

Given a reductive algebraic group G, Lusztig has shown how to realise the group algebra ℤ[W] of the Weyl group as a convolution algebra of constructible functions on the Steinberg. For GLn we will show how this can be used to give a realisation of the representations of the symmetric group in constructible functions on Springer fibres.