Representations and Characters of Groups

Produktbeschreibung

This is the second edition of the popular textbook on representation theory of finite groups. The authors have revised the text greatly and included new chapters on Characters of GL(2, q) and Permutations and Characters. The theory is developed in terms of modules, since this is appropriate for more advanced work, but considerable emphasis is placed upon constructing characters. The character tables of many groups are given, including all groups of order less than 32, and all but one of the simple groups of order less than 1000. Each chapter is accompanied by a variety of exercises, and full solutions to all the exercises are provided at the end of the book. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Groups and homomorphisms; 2. Vector spaces and linear transformations; 3.
Group representations; 4. FG-modules; 5. FG-submodules; 6. Group algebras; 7.
FG-homomorphisms; 8. Mashcke's theorem; 9. Schur's lemma; 10. Irreducible
modules and the group algebra; 11. More on the group algebra; 12. Conjugacy
classes; 13. Characters; 14. Inner products of characters; 15. The number of
irreducible characters; 16. Character tables and orthogonality relations; 17.
Normal subgroups and lifted characters; 18. Some elementary character tables;
19. Tensor products; 20. Restriction to a subgroup; 21. Induced modules and
characters; 22. Algebraic integers; 23. Real representations; 24. Summary of
properties of character tables; 25. Characters of groups of order pq; 26.
Characters of some p-groups; 27. Character table of the simple group of order
168; 28. Character table of GL(2,q); 29. Permutations and characters; 30.
Applications to group theory; 31. Burnside's theorem; 32. An application of
representation theory to molecular vibration.