Trilinear forms, subspaces of bilinear forms and group actions

Speaker: Rod Gow (UCD)

Time: 4:00PM

Date: Mon 23rd February 2009

Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room

Abstract
We report on the construction of trilinear forms invariant under the action of an interesting algebraic group and show how to obtain subspaces of bilinear forms invariant under the action of the group. In certain cases, these subspaces have special rank properties.

(This talk is part of the Algebra/Claude Shannon Institute series.)