Amitai Regev

Amitai Regev
Born	(1940-12-07) December 7, 1940
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Known for	Regev's theorem, polynomial identity rings, connections between PI rings and representations of the symmetric group
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral advisor	Shimshon Amitsur

Amitai Regev (born December 7, 1940) is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in ring theory.

He is the Herman P. Taubman Professor of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He received his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1972, under the direction of Shimshon Amitsur.

Regev has made significant contributions to the theory of polynomial identity rings (PI rings). In particular, he proved Regev's theorem that the tensor product of two PI rings is again a PI ring. He developed so-called "Regev theory" that connects PI rings to representations of the symmetric group, and hence to Young tableaux. He has made seminal contributions to the asymptotic enumeration of Young tableaux and tableaux of hook shape, and together with William Beckner proved the Macdonald-Selberg conjecture for the infinite Lie algebras of type B, C, and D.

References

• Berele, Allan; Roichman, Yuval (2006), "The mathematics of Amitai Regev", Advances in Applied Mathematics, 37 (2): 132–138, doi:10.1016/j.aam.2005.09.006, ISSN 0196-8858, MR 2251431

External links

• Amitai Regev's homepage
• Amitai Regev at the Mathematics Genealogy Project