LinearAlgebraicMonoids(LondonMathematicalSocietyLectureNoteSeries)

Thisbookprovidesanintroductiontothefieldoflinearalgebraicmonoids.Thissubjectrepresentsasynthesisofideasfromthetheoryofalgebraicgroups,algebraicgeometry,matrixtheoryandabstractsemigrouptheory.Sinceeveryrepresentationofanalgebraicgroupgivesrisetoanalgebraicmonoid,theobjectsofstudydoindeedarisenaturally.