Algebra Seminar by John Murray
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Characteristic 2: a survey.
We give a potted history of the development of special techniques in the representation theory of finite groups over a field of characacteristic 2. Topics may include the Frobenius-Schur theorem on involutions and its various generalizations (due to Mackey, Gow and Kawanaka- Matsuyama), the study of real blocks (due to Brauer, Gow and M.) and various types of bilinear forms (Sin-Willems and Gow-Willems), self-dual Morita theory (Willems-Zimmerman) and involutary actions (on conjugacy classes, algebras, vertices and fusion categories).
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- John Murray (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)