MA8205 Representation theory of algebras

Exam

The oral exams will take place on June 1st and 14th.

I have made an exam plan and sent it to the people on it. If you are planning to take the exam and have not received an exam time please contact me as soon as possible.

For an overview over the content of the course, see the course description page.

Lecturer

Steffen Oppermann, room 844, Sentralbygg II, Steffen [dot] Oppermann [at] ntnu [dot] no

Schedule

Lectures will be on Mondays from 12:15 to 14:00, and on Thursdays from 08:15 to 10:00.

From January 24th, we will be in F4 (in "Gamle Fysikk"). Note that this can change back to Zoom at any point.

Exercises

Notes

I uploaded the pdfs I created during the online Zoom lectures. (There is a good chance that there are mistakes and or gaps where I explained something only orally. Consult these notes at your own risk.)

January 13th
January 17th
January 20th

Thomas and Endre kindly agreed to share the notes they have been taking during the lectures.

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Literature

The content of the course is what will presented during lectures. Most of this content can also be found in both the following books:

Maurice Auslander, Idun Reiten, and Sverre O. Smalø, Representation theory of Artin algebras, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 36

Ibrahim Assem, Daniel Simson, and Andrzej Skowronski, Elements of the Representation Theory of Associative Algebras: Volume 1: Techniques of Representation Theory, London Mathematical Society Student Texts 65

Michael Barot, Introduction to the Representation Theory of Algebras, Springer, available on SpringerLink (provided you are on or surf through campus)

Alexander Zimmermann, Representation Theory, A Homological Algebra Point of View, Springer, available on SpringerLink (provided you are on or surf through campus)

2022-05-03, Steffen Oppermann