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He has been one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization. His introduction of the theory of prequantization has led to the theory of quantum Toda lattices. The Kostant partition function is named after him.
Feb 25, 2017 · Kostant was a major figure in the field of representation theory, and perhaps the leading one during the second half of the twentieth century among those with a serious interest in the relations between representation theory and quantum theory.
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Feb 16, 2017 · Bertram Kostant. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics. Innovative mathematician and longtime professor made key contributions to representation theory and Lie theory. Published: February 16, 2017.
May 8, 2004 · The Kostant Dirac operator is the standard one you would expect, with the addition of an extra cubic term. For the details of all this, see Kostant’s paper: Kostant, B.
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Bertram Kostant (May 24, 1928 – February 2, 2017) was an American mathematician. He was known for his works in Kostant partition function and Kostant–Parthasarathy–Ranga Rao–Varadarajan determinants. In 2016, he won the Wigner Medal.
It is known that Konstant's partition function is a piecewise polynomial of degree {n-1 \choose 2}. The number of pieces equals 1 for n=1, 2 for n=2, 7 for n=3, 48 for n = 4, 820 for n = 5, and 44288 for n = 6.
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