Representation Theory of Finite Monoids

Benjamin Steinberg is a professor at City College of New York and the CUNY graduate center. Steinberg is an algebraist interested in a broad range of areas including semigroups, geometric group theory and representation theory. Other research interests include automata theory, finite state Markov chains and algebras associated to etale groupoids. Steinberg is the co-author of a 2009 Springer publication in the SMM series entitled "The q-theory of Finite Semigroups" and author of the (c) 2012 UTX "Representation Theory of Finite Groups". Ben Steinberg is also an active editorial board member of the Semigroup Forum journal.

“It can be used as a textbook for advanced or post-graduate courses, but it is also of interest for all readers who enjoy clear algebraic text with numerous results.” (Jaak Henno, zbMATH 1428.20003, 2020)“This is the first monograph concerned with the representation theory of finite monoids and which takes a modern module theoretic view of the subject. It intends to serve graduate students and researchers in combinatorics, automata theory and probability theory.” (K. Auinger, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 188, 2019)“The real strength of the book is that it also addresses and presents many recent applications of representation theory of finite monoids which served as motivation for many activities in the area during the last twenty years. ... this is a well-written and very timely monograph which is suitable for both advanced researchers and graduate studentsfrom a wide range of mathematical areas.” (Volodymyr Mazorchuck, Mathematical Reviews, September, 2017)

• ​Preface.- List of Figures.- Introduction.- I. Elements of Monoid Theory.- 1. The Structure Theory of Finite Monoids.- 2. R-trivial Monoids.- 3. Inverse Monoids.- II. Irreducible Representations.- 4. Recollement: The Theory of an Idempotent.- 5. Irreducible Representations.- III. Character Theory.- 6. Grothendieck Ring.- 7. Characters and Class Functions.- IV. The Representation Theory of Inverse Monoids.- 8. Categories and Groupoids.- 9. The Representation Theory of Inverse Monoids.- V. The Rhodes Radical.- 10. Bi-ideals and R. Steinberg's Theorem.- 11. The Rhodes Radical and Triangularizability.- VI. Applications.- 12. Zeta Functions of Languages and Dynamical Systems.- 13. Transformation Monoids.- 14. Markov Chains.- VII. Advanced Topics.- 15. Self-injective, Frobenius and Symmetric Algebras.- 16. Global Dimension.- 17. Quivers of Monoid Algebras.- 18. Further Developments.- A. Finite Dimensional Algebras.- B. Group Representation Theory.- C. Incidence Algebras and Möbius Inversion.- References.- Index of Notation.- Subject Index.