Jens Carsten Jantzen (born 1948) is a German mathematician and professor emeritus at

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working on

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and

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s. He introduced the Jantzen filtration and translation functors.

Early life and education

Jantzen was born in 1948 in Störtewerkerkoog,

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. He received his PhD from the

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in 1973 under the supervision of

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Career

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

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Awards and honors

In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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Selected publications

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References

External links

Home page of Jens Carsten JantzenPictures from Oberwolfach
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