This document provides the details for an exam on group representations including:
1) The exam will take place on January 22, 1999 from 4-6pm in the Synge Theatre. Students should attempt 6 of the 8 questions provided.
2) The questions cover topics such as defining representations, determining simple and semisimple representations, character tables, and properties of representations for specific groups like S3, D4, S4, and S5.
This document provides the details for an exam on group representations including:
1) The exam will take place on January 22, 1999 from 4-6pm in the Synge Theatre. Students should attempt 6 of the 8 questions provided.
2) The questions cover topics such as defining representations, determining simple and semisimple representations, character tables, and properties of representations for specific groups like S3, D4, S4, and S5.
This document provides the details for an exam on group representations including:
1) The exam will take place on January 22, 1999 from 4-6pm in the Synge Theatre. Students should attempt 6 of the 8 questions provided.
2) The questions cover topics such as defining representations, determining simple and semisimple representations, character tables, and properties of representations for specific groups like S3, D4, S4, and S5.
This document provides the details for an exam on group representations including:
1) The exam will take place on January 22, 1999 from 4-6pm in the Synge Theatre. Students should attempt 6 of the 8 questions provided.
2) The questions cover topics such as defining representations, determining simple and semisimple representations, character tables, and properties of representations for specific groups like S3, D4, S4, and S5.
Group Representations I Dr Timothy Murphy Synge Theatre
Monday, 22 January 1999
16:0018:00
Attempt 6 questions. (If you attempt more, only the best 6 will be counted.) All questions carry the same number of marks. Unless otherwise stated, all groups are finite, and all representations are of finite degree over C. 1. Define a group representation. What is meant by saying that 2 representations , of G are equivalent? Determine all representations of S3 of degree 2 (up to equivalence), from first principles. Show that if , are equivalent representations of G then , have the same eigenvalues for each g G. Is the converse true, ie if (g), (g) have the same eigenvalues for each g, does it follow that , are equivalent? 2. What is meant by saying that the representation is simple? Determine all simple representations of D4 from first principles. Show that a simple representation of G necessarily has degree kGk. 3. What is meant by saying that the representation is semisimple? Prove that every representation of a finite group G (of finite degree over C) is semisimple.
4. Define the intertwining number I(, ) of 2 representations , .
Show that if , are simple then ( 1 if = I(, ) = 0 if 6= . Hence or otherwise show that the simple parts of a semisimple representation are unique up to order. 5. Define the character of a representation . Outline the proof that I(, ) =
1 X (g) (g). kGk gG
Show that two representations , of G are equivalent if and only if
they have the same character. 6. Show that a simple representation of an abelian group is necessarily of degree 1. Prove conversely that if every simple representation of G is of degree 1 then G must be abelian. 7. Draw up the character table of S4 . Determine also the representation ring of S4 , ie express each product of simple representations of S4 as a sum of simple representations. 8. Show that a finite group G has only a finite number of simple representations (up to equivalence), say 1 , . . . , r ; and show that (deg 1 )2 + + (deg r )2 = kGk. Show that the number of simple representations of Sn of degree d is even if d is odd. Hence or otherwise determine the dimensions of the simple representations of S5 .
