A relation between the Z3-graded Grassmann variables and parafermions is established. Coherent states are constructed as a direct consequence of such a relationship. We also give the analog of the Bargmann-Fock representation in terms of these Grassmann variables.

we survey some recent results on cocharacters of upper triangular matrices. in particular, we deal both with ordinary and graded cocharacter sequence; we list the principal combinatorial results; we show di erent tech-niques in order to solve similar problems.

We introduce the concept of the Grassmann real form of an arbitrary matrix supergroup and of its Lie superalgebra. This new notion includes as special cases the ordinary real forms (considered and classified by Serganova) but it is more general. Indeed, the Grassmann real forms are characterized by certain Lie superal-gebra automorphisms of order four, while the ordinary real forms by those of ...

We derive a Newton method for computing the best rank-(r1, r2, r3) approximation of a given J × K × L tensor A. The problem is formulated as an approximation problem on a product of Grassmann manifolds. Incorporating the manifold structure into Newton’s method ensures that all iterates generated by the algorithm are points on the Grassmann manifolds. We also introduce a consistent notation for ...

S u m m a r y . A functional integral for a particle obeying the Dirac equation is presented. In earlier work (reviewed here) we showed that 1) such a particle could be described as a massless particle randomly flipping direction and helicity at a complex rate i/m and 2) its between-flips propagation could be written as a sum over paths for a Grassmann variable valued stochastic process. We her...

Hermann Grassmann is cast as a pivotal figure in the historical development of a universal geometric calculus for mathematics and physics which continues to this day. He formulated most of the basic ideas and, to a remarkable extent, anticipates later developments. His influence is far more potent and pervasive than generally recognized. After nearly a century on the brink of obscurity, Hermann...

In this paper we proposed quasi-Newton and limited memory quasi-Newton methods for objective functions defined on Grassmann manifolds or a product of Grassmann manifolds. Specifically we defined bfgs and l-bfgs updates in local and global coordinates on Grassmann manifolds or a product of these. We proved that, when local coordinates are used, our bfgs updates on Grassmann manifolds share the s...

We study a natural generalization of the noncrossing relation between pairs of elements in [n] to k-tuples in [n] that was first considered by Petersen et al. [J. Algebra 324(5) (2010), 951–969]. We give an alternative approach to their result that the flag simplicial complex on ([n] k ) induced by this relation is a regular, unimodular and flag triangulation of the order polytope of the poset ...