This Week’s Finds – Lecture 2

 

Young diagrams are combinatorial structures that show up in a myriad of applications. Here we explain how to classify irreducible representations of the symmetric groups Sₙ using Young diagrams. Then we introduce some ‘classical groups’ – famous groups whose irreducible representations can also be classified using Young diagrams.

For more details, read my paper “Young diagrams and classical groups” here:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/twf/

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