The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...
Let R be an integral domain, K its field of fractions, F a free group. Let I and J be fully invariant (=verbal) ideals of the group algebra KF. We prove that over certain domains the equality IJ ∩ RF ...
In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the mathematical realm known as group theory. At first her goals were ...