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Denote $\Phi(n)$ as the root system of Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ of type $A_{n}$. Call a disjoint union $\Phi(n) = \Phi_{1}\sqcup\dotsb\sqcup\Phi_{s}$ a decomposition of $\Phi$ if each $\Phi_{k}$ is ...

I'm a student studying undergraduate abstract algebra and doing a summer research project in the mathematics department at my school. I'm barely familiar with the rudiments of representation theory; I ...

One of the open problems in combinatorics is enumeration of meanders. Here on MO I only could find them under the heading not-especially-famous-long-open-problems-which-anyone-can-understand. Since my ...