The University of Arizona

The Buzz about the BHZ: The Life and Times of Brauer’s Height Zero Conjecture

Algebra and Number Theory Seminar

The Buzz about the BHZ: The Life and Times of Brauer’s Height Zero Conjecture
Series: Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Location: ENR2-S395
Presenter: Mandi A. Schaeffer Fry, University of Denver

In 1955, Richard Brauer, often regarded as the founder of modular representation theory, made one of the first of the so-called “local-global” conjectures in character theory and opened the door to an entire area of research. I’ll discuss the background of this conjecture, known as Brauer’s Height Zero Conjecture (BHZ), and its recent proof, which is joint work with G. Malle, G. Navarro, and P.H. Tiep.