About Jens Carsten Jantzen
Born 1948. Jens Carsten Jantzen is a German mathematician.
Jens Carsten Jantzen (born 1948) is a German mathematician and professor emeritus at Aarhus University working on representation theory and algebraic groups. He introduced the Jantzen filtration and translation functors.
Early life and education Jantzen was born in 1948 in Störtewerkerkoog, Nordfriesland. He received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1973 under the supervision of Jacques Tits. In 1979, he introduced the Jantzen filtration.
Awards and honors In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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Jens Carsten Jantzen was born on 18 October 1948.
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