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.
Jantzen was born in 1948 in Störtewerkerkoog, Nordfriesland. [1] He received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1973 under the supervision of Jacques Tits. [2]
In the late 1970s, Jantzen and Gregg Zuckerman independently introduced translation functors. [3] [4] In 1979, he introduced the Jantzen filtration. [4]
His doctoral students include Wolfgang Soergel. [2]
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [5]
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