Linear preservers paper published

Hernando Bermudez, Skip Garibaldi, and Victor Larsen, “Linear preservers and representations with a 1-dimensional ring of invariants”, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 366 #6 (2014), 4755-4780.  DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06081-9

New preprint: simple algebraic groups…

New paper at joint with Bob Guralnick: Simple algebraic groups are (usually) determined by an invariant (arxiv.org:1309.6611). A very special case of our main results is a description of groups of type E8.   Update (6/3/2014): The paper now has a new title “Simple groups stabilizing polynomials”. Update (5/2015): It will be published in Forum of Mathematics, Pi.