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A finite-dimensional representation over a field, and its degree
Definition
Let be a field (Field) and let be a group. A finite-dimensional representation of over is a finite-dimensional -vector space (Vector space over a field, Finite-dimensional vector space, and its dimension ; infinite-dimensional means having no finite basis) together with a group homomorphism where denotes the group of invertible -linear maps (Invertible linear maps, linear isomorphisms, and inverse linear maps, Monoid homomorphism and group homomorphism).
The associated action is This makes into a -module over in the sense of An -linear action of on a left -module, and a -module over .
The degree of the representation is the dimension of its underlying vector space:
Remarks
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The finite-dimensionality convention is part of the definition on this page, not a later standing assumption.
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The representation is determined equally well by the homomorphism or by the associated -linear action of on .
Depends on
- Finite-dimensional vector space, and its dimension $\dim_F V$; infinite-dimensional means having no finite basis
- Field
- Monoid homomorphism and group homomorphism
- Invertible linear maps, linear isomorphisms, and inverse linear maps
- An $R$-linear action of $G$ on a left $R$-module, and a $G$-module over $R$
- Vector space over a field
Used by
- Every irreducible representation of a finite group has degree at most |G| Corollary
- The dimension of an induced finite-dimensional representation is [G:H]dim W Corollary
- A reducible Specht module in characteristic two Counterexample
- A solvable group that is not an M-group Counterexample
- A completely reducible representation as a finite direct sum of irreducible subrepresentations Definition
- A splitting field for a finite group: every irreducible representation has scalar endomorphism ring Definition
- Additive characters of a finite abelian group Definition
- An extension of a normal subgroup representation Definition
- Character fields and fields of definition Definition
- Commuting symmetric-group and linear actions on a tensor power Definition
- Conjugate representations and conjugate characters on conjugate subgroups Definition
- Galois conjugates of a representation Definition
- Intertwiners, the spaces Hom_G(V,W) and End_G(V), equivalent representations, and faithful representations Definition
- Monomial representations, monomial characters, and M-groups Definition
- Subrepresentations, direct sums of representations, and irreducibility Definition
- The character χ_V(g)=tr(ρ_V(g)) of a finite-dimensional complex representation Definition
- The dual or contragredient complex representation Definition
- The fixed subspace V^G of a representation Definition
- The rational representation ring R_ℚ(G) and rational-valued class functions Definition
- The restriction coproduct on the graded symmetric-group character ring Definition
- The sign representation of Sₙ and the restriction Res^G_H(V) of a representation to a subgroup Definition
- The skew multiplicity module K^λ/μ over ℂ Definition
- The tensor product of two complex representations Definition
- The trivial representation, the regular representation, and permutation representations from finite G-sets Definition
- A circle representation with an averaged orthogonal weight form Example
- A compact group with no faithful continuous finite-dimensional representation Example
- All three Specht modules of S₃ Example
- Convolution of matrix coefficients on a compact group Example
- The quaternion group Q₈ acts on ℍ by left multiplication Example
- Trivial and one-dimensional monomial cases Example
- False statement: Maschke's theorem holds over every field False statement
- Additive characters are exactly one-dimensional complex representation characters Lemma
- Averaging a Hermitian form unitarizes a finite-dimensional compact-group representation Lemma
- Base change for intertwiner spaces Lemma
- Induction commutes with an external tensor factor Lemma
- Induction is invariant under conjugation of the subgroup and the representation Lemma
- Modular trace depends only on the p-regular part Lemma
- The cocycle central extension linearizes a projective representation Lemma
- The kernel of a finite direct sum is the intersection of the kernels Lemma
- Adjoint is a smooth Lie-group representation Proposition
…and 4 more results.
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Sources
- Pavel Etingof et al., Introduction to Representation Theory, Section 1.3 (standard reference, not scraped)