Cross characteristics representations of symplectic and unitary groups

Journal of Algebra

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 291-347

  Guralnick, Robert M ^a   Magaard, Kay ^b   Saxl, Jan ^c   Tiep, Pham Huu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross characteristic representation; Finite symplectic group; Finite unitary group; Low dimensional representation; Quadratic module; Weil representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037113726     PISSN: 00218693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8693(02)00527-6     Document Type: Article

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