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Oct 28, 2012 at 23:39 history edited Will Sawin CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 28, 2012 at 23:39 comment added Will Sawin I edited this to answer the second part of the first question.
Oct 28, 2012 at 22:51 history edited Will Sawin CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 28, 2012 at 18:52 comment added Alexander Chervov Ahhh, I misread - I thought you mean: conjuagacy class = irrep + number...
Oct 28, 2012 at 18:43 comment added Will Sawin Functions from the set of irreducible representations to $\mathbb C$
Oct 28, 2012 at 18:42 comment added Will Sawin That ring is the center of the group algebra, which has a basis of idempotents, one for each irrep. Write an element in terms of this basis to identify the ring with the ring of functions $\\{irreps\\} \to \mathbb C$, aka column vectors, with entrywise addition and multiplication.
Oct 28, 2012 at 16:51 comment added Alexander Chervov @Will, honestly speaking I do not fully understand your answer, may be just bad day for me. What you mean by "First note that the ring of conjugacy classes tensored with C can be identified with assignments of a number to each irrep"
Oct 27, 2012 at 21:49 history answered Will Sawin CC BY-SA 3.0