Jens Carsten Jantzen (born 18 October 1948, in Störtewerkerkoog,

Nordfriesland Nordfriesland (; da, Nordfrisland; frr, Nordfraschlönj ), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the exception o ...

) is a mathematician working on

representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essen ...

and

algebraic group In mathematics, an algebraic group is an algebraic variety endowed with a group structure which is compatible with its structure as an algebraic variety. Thus the study of algebraic groups belongs both to algebraic geometry and group theory. Man ...

s, who introduced the Jantzen filtration, the Jantzen sum formula, and

translation functor In mathematical representation theory, a (Zuckerman) translation functor is a functor taking representations of a Lie algebra to representations with a possibly different central character. Translation functors were introduced independently by and ...

s. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. His doctoral students include

Wolfgang Soergel Wolfgang Soergel (born 12 June 1962 in Geneva) is a German mathematician, specializing in geometry and representation theory. Biography He spent his youth in Heidelberg, where he passed the ''Abitur'' examination in 1980 at the . He studied mathe ...

Publications

* * * * *with Joachim Schwermer: *with

Walter Borho Walter Borho (born 17 December 1945, in Hamburg) is a German mathematician, who works on algebra and number theory. Borho received his PhD in 1973 from the University of Hamburg under the direction of Ernst Witt with thesis ''Wesentliche ganze Er ...

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