Amritanshu Prasad
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
CIT campus Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India
Phone: (91)-44-2254 3207   Fax: (91)-44-2254 1586
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Current Research

Representation theory, harmonic analysis, combinatorics, number theory.

Specifically, matrix groups over local rings, finite abelian groups, locally compact abelian groups, Heisenberg groups, Weil representations.

Selected recent work
  1. Combinatorics of finite abelian groups and Weil representations, with Kunal Dutta.
  2. Degenerations and orbits in finite abelian groups, with Kunal Dutta.
  3. An easy proof of the Stone-von Neumann-Mackey theorem (to appear in Expositiones Mathematicae).
  4. Locally compact abelian groups with symplectic self-duality, with Ilya Shapiro and M. K. Vemuri (Advances in Mathematics, vol. 225, 2010).
Supervised work
  1. On representations of general linear groups over principal ideal local rings of length two, by Pooja Singla (Journal of Algebra, vol 324, 2010).