Author: Peter Webb

Address:
School of Mathematics, 
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis MN 55455

Title:
Weight theory in the context of arbitrary finite groups

Abstract: 
This paper is an account of a lecture given August 9, 2002 at the
Fields Institute, and is expository in nature.
Many constructions which arise in the study of Mackey functors bear a
similarity to certain constructions in Lie theory.  We survey these similarities
and indicate applications to the computation of group cohomology and the stable
decomposition of classifying spaces, as well the connection with Alperin's weight
conjecture.

Journal: Fields Institute Communications 40 (2004), 277-289.