User Bruce Westbury - MathOverflow

Bruce Westbury

Member for 12 years, 9 months
Last seen more than 3 years ago

warwick.ac.uk/~masdbn
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

30 Questions

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36 votes

5 answers

4k views

Is there an explicit construction of a free coalgebra?

asked Jul 8, 2010 at 20:09

22 votes

3 answers

3k views

Is there a combinatorial analogue of Ricci flow?

asked May 22, 2011 at 5:16

20 votes

1 answer

3k views

Calculating 6j-symbols (aka Racah-Wigner coefficients) for quantum groups

asked Feb 19, 2010 at 8:31

16 votes

0 answers

512 views

Does a symplectic group act on a tensor power of a spin representation?

asked Mar 3, 2011 at 11:38

13 votes

1 answer

935 views

Can the Jacobi-Trudi identity be understood as a BGG resolution?

asked Jun 5, 2010 at 17:52

10 votes

2 answers

1k views

Can you find linear recurrence relation for dimensions of invariant tensors?

asked Mar 9, 2010 at 14:50

9 votes

1 answer

2k views

Finding recurrence relation for a sequence of polynomials

asked Jul 15, 2010 at 15:42

9 votes

1 answer

525 views

Restriction of characters of hyperoctahedral groups.

asked Nov 24, 2011 at 13:50

9 votes

0 answers

212 views

Are pivotal categories the algebras for a cartesian monad?

asked Jul 6, 2012 at 14:09

8 votes

1 answer

188 views

Permutations and framed braids as cyclic operads

asked Nov 2, 2018 at 16:18

8 votes

1 answer

612 views

A q-analogue of Ramanujan's tau function

asked Jul 22, 2010 at 8:33

8 votes

1 answer

626 views

From symmetric groups to symplectic groups?

asked Feb 15, 2010 at 18:50

8 votes

2 answers

776 views

Representations of the three string braid group

asked Feb 17, 2010 at 7:07

7 votes

1 answer

745 views

Is an irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifold a simple Lie algebra?

asked Mar 5, 2010 at 14:54

7 votes

4 answers

851 views

Is the classification of finite p-groups a smooth problem?

asked Jan 12, 2011 at 11:05

7 votes

0 answers

358 views

Braid group action on canonical basis

asked May 3, 2012 at 18:17

6 votes

1 answer

999 views

Exact arithmetic for real algebraic numbers

asked Dec 11, 2012 at 10:56

6 votes

0 answers

195 views

What is the q-analogue of the Lefschetz decomposition?

asked Aug 2, 2010 at 13:22

6 votes

2 answers

236 views

What is the explanation for the special form of representations of three string braid group constructed using quantum groups information supplied

asked Mar 16, 2010 at 10:00

5 votes

2 answers

750 views

What is known about the centraliser of the Hecke algebra in the affine Hecke algebra?

asked Jun 3, 2011 at 21:06

4 votes

0 answers

342 views

Counter example in Tannaka reconstruction?

asked May 31, 2012 at 17:57

4 votes

2 answers

767 views

What is the correct formulation of the CDE triangle?

asked Feb 17, 2010 at 11:37

4 votes

1 answer

347 views

Is there an account of the algebra of highest weight tensors?

asked Nov 5, 2010 at 14:36

4 votes

0 answers

467 views

Working with quadratic Lie algebras

asked Jul 1, 2010 at 12:42

3 votes

1 answer

288 views

What is a left dual up to homotopy?

asked Mar 7, 2011 at 14:33

3 votes

1 answer

338 views

Properties of nerve of strict n-groupoid

asked Mar 25, 2011 at 11:14

3 votes

0 answers

129 views

Is the quasisymmetric expansion of the inner product of two Schur functions known?

asked Jan 11, 2013 at 19:18

3 votes

1 answer

220 views

What is the definition of a discharge rule?

asked May 9, 2012 at 18:56

2 votes

2 answers

2k views

If you went into a coma now and woke in twenty years time what would be your first post on MO? [closed]

asked Jul 10, 2010 at 13:13

1 vote

1 answer

619 views

Hankel determinants of symmetric functions

asked Jun 16, 2010 at 8:52