The representation theory of groups is a part of mathematics which examines how groups act on given structures. Here the focus is in particular on operations...
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mathematical field of representation theory, group representations describe abstract groups in terms of bijective linear transformations of a vector space...
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information about the representation in a more condensed form. Georg Frobenius initially developed representation theory of finite groups entirely based on...
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include groups, associative algebras and Lie algebras. The most prominent of these (and historically the first) is the representation theory of groups, in...
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Modular representation theory is a branch of mathematics, and is the part of representation theory that studies linear representations of finite groups over...
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aspects of the theory of finite groups in great depth, especially the local theory of finite groups and the theory of solvable and nilpotent groups. As a...
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In mathematics, the representation theory of the symmetric group is a particular case of the representation theory of finite groups, for which a concrete...
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complete classification of finite simple groups. Group theory has three main historical sources: number theory, the theory of algebraic equations, and...
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of a group. There is a direct relationship between the Fourier transform on finite groups and the representation theory of finite groups. The set of complex-valued...
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worked on representation theory of finite groups and wrote the first book about group theory in the English language: Theory of Groups of Finite Order),...
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product of linear maps. One can extend the notion of tensor products to any finite number of representations. If V is a linear representation of a group G,...
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specifically in group theory, the phrase group of Lie type usually refers to finite groups that are closely related to the group of rational points of a reductive...
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classification of finite simple groups (popularly called the enormous theorem) is a result of group theory stating that every finite simple group is either...
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In the mathematical field of representation theory, a weight of an algebra A over a field F is an algebra homomorphism from A to F, or equivalently, a...
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mathematics, the representation theory of the Poincaré group is an example of the representation theory of a Lie group that is neither a compact group nor a semisimple...
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Walter Feit (category Group theorists)
Austrian-born American mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. His contributions provided elementary infrastructure...
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in terms of the more concrete ones, using homomorphisms, actions and modules. An early pioneer of the representation theory of finite groups was Ferdinand...
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Schur's lemma (category Representation theory)
in representation theory of groups and algebras. In the group case it says that if M and N are two finite-dimensional irreducible representations of a...
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object of representation theory. Salient parts of the theory include: Representation theory of finite groups; Representation theory of Lie groups and more...
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modular representation theory of finite groups relating the degrees of the complex irreducible characters in a Brauer block and the structure of its defect...
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Maschke's theorem (category Representation theory of finite groups)
Heinrich Maschke, is a theorem in group representation theory that concerns the decomposition of representations of a finite group into irreducible pieces. Maschke's...
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Frobenius reciprocity (category Representation theory of finite groups)
inventor of the representation theory of finite groups. The theorem was originally stated in terms of character theory. Let G be a finite group with a subgroup...
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automorphism groups, and their representation theory. For the remainder of this article, "symmetric group" will mean a symmetric group on a finite set. The...
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Bhama Srinivasan (category Indian group theorists)
work in the representation theory of finite groups. Her contributions were honored with the 1990 Noether Lecture. She served as president of the Association...
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In group theory, the induced representation is a representation of a group, G, which is constructed using a known representation of a subgroup H. Given...
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operated on, the result is also within the group). Compact groups are a natural generalization of finite groups with the discrete topology and have properties...
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all be seen as groups endowed with additional operations and axioms. Groups recur throughout mathematics, and the methods of group theory have influenced...
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Embodied agent Game character (disambiguation) Representation theory of finite groups § Representation ring Virtual actor Virtual agent (disambiguation)...
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For such groups, a typical goal of representation theory is to classify all finite-dimensional irreducible representations of the given group, up to isomorphism...
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permutation representation of a (typically finite) group G {\displaystyle G} can refer to either of two closely related notions: a representation of G {\displaystyle...
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