Modular Representations of Finite Groups of Lie Type

James E. Humphreys was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and received his AB from Oberlin College, Ohio in 1961, and his PhD from Yale University, Connecticut in 1966. He has taught at the University of Oregon, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (now retired). He visits the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton and Rutgers. He is the author of several graduate texts and monographs.

• 1. Finite groups of Lie type; 2. Simple modules; 3. Weyl modules and Lusztig's conjecture; 4. Computation of weight multiplicities; 5. Other aspects of simple modules; 6. Tensor products; 7. BN-pairs and induced modules; 8. Blocks; 9. Projective modules; 10. Comparison with Frobenius kernels; 11. Cartan invariants; 12. Extensions of simple modules; 13. Loewy series; 14. Cohomology; 15. Complexity and support varieties; 16. Ordinary and modular representations; 17. Deligne-Lusztig characters; 18. The groups G2; 19. General and special linear groups; 20. Suzuki and Ree groups; Bibliography; Frequently used symbols; Index.

'This is the first comprehensive treatment of the representation theory of finate groups of Lie type over a field of the defining prime charecteristic.' L'enseignement mathematique