nLab Georgia Benkart

Georgia Benkart was a mathematician, late professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her interests were in nonassociative algebras, Lie theory, representation theory and related combinatorics.

Selected works

On down-up algebras

• Georgia Benkart, Tom Roby, Down-up algebras, math.RT/9803159
• Georgia Benkart, Sarah Witherspoon, A Hopf structure for down-up algebras, Mathematische Zeitschrift 238:3, 523–553, doi

On generalizations of Schur-Weyl duality

• Georgia Benkart, Commuting actions – A tale of two groups, in: Lie Algebras and Their Representations, Contemp. Math. 194 (1996) 1–46

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