Invariant Theory and Tableaux (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)

Dennis Stanton, Editor. Proceedings Of The Workshop On Invariant Theory And Tableaux Held At The Ima On March 21-25, 1988. Includes Bibliographical References. Front cover Title Contents Foreword Preface Introduction to invariant theory in superalgebras (Rota, Sturmfels) Implementation of the straightening algorithm of classical invariant theory (White) Canonical forms of binary forms: variations on a theme of Sylvester (Kung) Invariant theory, equivalence problems, and the calculus of variations (Olver) A survey of invariant theory applied to normal forms of vectorfields with nilpotent linear part (Cushman, Sanders) Operators commuting with Coxeter group actions on polynomials (Dunkl) The Möbius function of subword order (Björner) Keys & standard bases (Lascoux, Schützenberger) Variations on differential posets (Stanley) Idempotents for the free Lie algebra and q-enumeration (Bergeron, Bergeron, Garsia) Tableaux in the representation theory of the classical Lie groups (Sundaram) S-functions and characters of Lie algebras and superalgebras (King) The ubiquitous Young tableau (Sagan)