A Ribbon Hopf Algebra Approach to the Irreducible Representations of Centralizer Algebras: The Brauer, Birman-Wenzl, and Type A Iwahori-Hecke Algebras

Arun Ram
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia
aram@unimelb.edu.au

Last update: 7 March 2014

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Notes and References

This is a typed version of the paper A Ribbon Hopf Algebra Approach to the Irreducible Representations of Centralizer Algebras: The Brauer, Birman-Wenzl, and Type A Iwahori-Hecke Algebras by Robert ${\text{Leduc}}^{*}$ and Arun ${\text{Ram}}^{†}\text{.}$

The paper was received June 24, 1994; accepted September 12, 1994.

${}^{*}$Supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant DMS-9300523 to the University of Wisconsin.
${}^{†}$Supported in part by National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship DMS-9107863.

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