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Why do the adjoint representations of three exceptional groups have the same first eight moments?

For a representation of a compact Lie group, the $n$th moment of the trace of that representation against the Haar measure is the dimension of the invariant subspace of the $n$th tensor power. The ...
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Special configurations on a circle from a homological algebra problem

Here is the short version of the combinatorial problem: Given a positive integer $n \geq 2$. Draw a circle with $2n$ points indexed by the numbers from $\mathbb{Z}/ 2n \mathbb{Z}$. We colour the ...
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When do almost all these invariants of tensors vanish?

Let $A,B,C,D$ be $n$-dimensional vector spaces over a field $k$. There is a natural homomorphism from the $mn^m$th tensor power $A^{\otimes (m n^m)} $ of $A$ to $k$ given by the determinant map $A^{\...
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