The scientific legacy of Miloslav Havlíček
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realisations of Lie algebras, Lie gradings, quantum groups, differential equations, quantum mechanicsAbstract
We review the main research achievements of Miloslav Havl´ıˇcek in algebraic methods in Quantum Theory, his extensive work on realisations of Lie algebras and superalgebras and their representation theory, quantum groups and differential equations.
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