Jens Carsten Jantzen Explained

Jens Carsten Jantzen (born 1948) is a German mathematician and professor emeritus at Aarhus University working on representation theory and algebraic groups. He introduced the Jantzen filtration and translation functors.

Early life and education

Jantzen was born in 1948 in Störtewerkerkoog, Nordfriesland. He received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1973 under the supervision of Jacques Tits.

Career

In the late 1970s, Jantzen and Gregg Zuckerman independently introduced translation functors. In 1979, he introduced the Jantzen filtration.

His doctoral students include Wolfgang Soergel.

Awards and honors

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[1]

Selected publications

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  • Über primitive Ideale in der Einhüllenden einer halbeinfachen Lie-Algebra. Inventiones Mathematicae. 39. 1977. 1–53. 10.1007/bf01695950. Borho. Walter . Walter Borho. Jantzen. Jens Carsten. 1977InMat..39....1B . 118474214.

External links

• Home page of Jens Carsten Jantzen
• Pictures from Oberwolfach

Notes and References

1. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
2. Vogan jr., David A.. David Vogan. Review: Einhüllende Algebren halbeinfacher Lie-Algebren, by Jens C. Jantzen. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1985. 12. 2. 279–283. 10.1090/s0273-0979-1985-15380-7. free.
3. Donkin, Stephen. Review: Representations of algebraic groups, by Jens Carsten Jantzen (1987). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1989. 20. 2. 211–215. 10.1090/s0273-0979-1989-15768-6. free.