Linear Representations of Finite Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 42)

Serre, Jean-Pierre

ISBN 10: 0387901906 / ISBN 13: 9780387901909

Published by Springer, 1977

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Linear Representations of Finite Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 42)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387901906
• ISBN 13: 9780387901909
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Weight: 35 ounces

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This book consists of three parts, rather different in level and purpose: The first part was originally written for quantum chemists. It describes the correspondence, due to Frobenius, between linear representations and charac­ ters. This is a fundamental result, of constant use in mathematics as well as in quantum chemistry or physics. I have tried to give proofs as elementary as possible, using only the definition of a group and the rudiments of linear algebra. The examples (Chapter 5) have been chosen from those useful to chemists. The second part is a course given in 1966 to second-year students of I'Ecoie Normale. It completes the first on the following points: (a) degrees of representations and integrality properties of characters (Chapter 6); (b) induced representations, theorems of Artin and Brauer, and applications (Chapters 7-11); (c) rationality questions (Chapters 12 and 13). The methods used are those of linear algebra (in a wider sense than in the first part): group algebras, modules, noncommutative tensor products, semisimple algebras. The third part is an introduction to Brauer theory: passage from characteristic 0 to characteristic p (and conversely). I have freely used the language of abelian categories (projective modules, Grothendieck groups), which is well suited to this sort of question. The principal results are: (a) The fact that the decomposition homomorphism is surjective: all irreducible representations in characteristic p can be lifted "virtually" (i.e., in a suitable Grothendieck group) to characteristic O.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French