A note on cellular algebras

The term "cellular algebra" was introduced by B. Yu. Weisfeiler and A. A. Leman in the paper "Reduction of a graph to a canonical form and an algebra which appears in this process", in Scientific-Technical Investigations Ser. 2, 9 (1968), 12-16 (in Russian).

Recently, J. J. Graham and G. I. Lehrer have used the same term in a different sense in their paper "Cellular algebras", in Invent. Math. 123 (1996), 1-34.

Readers should be aware of the possibility of confusion.


Further historical notes can be found here or in R. A. Bailey's forthcoming book on association schemes.

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Peter J. Cameron
3 October 2001.