Brill-Gordan loci, transvectants and an analogue of the Foulkes conjecture

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 491-520

  Abdesselam, A ^a   Chipalkatti, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Castelnuovo Mumford regularity; Coincident root loci; Feynman diagrams; Hypergeometric series; Magic squares; Schur modules; Symmetric plethysm

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750626027     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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