Algebra
Colloquium
Volume 11 • Number 1 • March 2004
Identifying Cartesian Decompositions Preserved by Transitive Permutation Groups
R.W. Baddeley, C.E. Praeger, C. Schneider 1
Real Homogeneous Algebras as Truncated Division Algebras and Their Automorphism Groups
D.Z. Djokovic, K.M. Zhao 11
Alexander Duality in Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics
J. Herzog 21
Dirac Operators in Representation Theory
J.-S. Huang 31
Vertex Representations and McKay Correspondence
N.H.Jing 53
Introduction to Noether's Problem for Dihedral Groups
M.-C. Kang 71
A Survey of Algebraic Cobordism
M. Levine 79
>Aoo-Algebras for Ring Theorists
DM. Lu, J.H. Palmieri, Q.S. Wu, J.J. Zhang 91
Characterizations of Groups by Arithmetic Properties
V.D. Mazurov 129
Cells in Quantum Affine Algebras
H. Nakajima 141
Algebraically Compact Modules Arising from Tubular Families: A Survey
C M . Ringel 155 Algebraic Curves over Finite Fields with Many Rational Points
C.P. Xing, S.L. Long 173