Peter Littelmann (born 10 December 1957) is a German mathematician at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

working on algebraic groups and representation theory, who introduced the Littelmann path model and used it to solve several conjectures in

standard monomial theory In algebraic geometry, standard monomial theory describes the sections of a line bundle over a generalized flag variety or Schubert variety of a reductive algebraic group by giving an explicit basis of elements called standard monomials. Many of th ...

and other areas.

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