GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY OF EXTERNAL AND SYMMETRIC PRODUCTS OF VARIETIES
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https://doi.org/10.37569/DalatUniversity.12.2.845(2022)Keywords:
Characters of representations, External and symmetric products, Generating series, Symmetric groups, Symmetric monoidal category, Schur functor.Abstract
We give a brief overview of recent developments on the calculation of generating series for invariants of external products of suitable coefficients (e.g., constructible or coherent sheaves, or mixed Hodge modules) on complex quasi-projective varieties.
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