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Existence of a faithful irreducible representation using Möbius function

Let $G$ be a finite group, $L(G)$ its subgroup lattice and $\mu$ the Möbius function. Consider the Euler totient of $G$ defined as follows: $$ \varphi(G) = \sum_{H \le G}\mu(H,G) |H| $$ Let $X=\{M_1, \...
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Orbits of independent sets of the hypercube

How does one enumerate the distinct orbit classes of independent sets of the hypercube modulo symmetries of the hypercubes? The counting of the number of independent sets in an $n$-dimensional ...
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Conjugacy classes in $GL_{n}(Z / pZ)$

Let $p$ be a prime number and $G=GL_n ( \mathbb{Z} / p \mathbb{Z} )$. Consider the set $U$ of upper-triangular matrices of $G$ having entries of $1$ on the diagonal. The cardinality of $U$ is $p^{\...
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The Möbius number of the nonabelian finite simple groups

Let $L$ be a finite lattice with minimum $\hat{0}$ and maximum $\hat{1}$. The Möbius function $\mu$ for $L$ is defined recursively by: for $\forall a,b \in L$ with $a<b$, $\mu(b,b) = 1$ and $\mu(...