LIE THEORY SEMINAR
LIE THEORY SEMINAR
Usual Meeting Time: Tuesdays at 12:05 in
901
Tuesday April 4 at 12:05, 901 VV
Speaker: Brian Hartwig
University of Wisconsin
The Classification of Finite Dimensional Irreducible Modules for the
Onsager Algebra
Abstract: In 1944 physicist Lars Onsager introduced an infinite dimensional
Lie algebra which is now call the Onsager algebra. We recall this algebra and
classify its finite dimensional irreducible
modules.