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Who first noticed the duality for finite groups?
A.A.Kirillov in section 12.3 of his "Elements of the Theory of Representations" writes that the first "symmetric" duality theory for non-commutative groups was the theory for finite groups. In short ...
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Reference/quote request: "All of combinatorics is the representation theory of $S_n$"
I think I remember reading somewhere a glib (or is it deep?) quote, perhaps due to Rota?, which was something like
"All of combinatorics is essentially [or can be reduced to?] the representation ...
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Reference for the Netto's theorem on the permutation groups which was mentioned in the paper of Frobenius
I'm trying to read 'Uber die Charaktere der mehrfach transitiven Gruppen' written by Frobenius.
There he mentioned some theorems of Netto.
I'm depending on the Google translator. and the translation ...
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Galois correspondence subgroups/subsystems
In this paper (1998) by M. Izumi, R. Longo, S. Popa, there is the following result (page 49) on compact groups:
Lemma 3.16. Let $G$ be a compact group and $Rep(G)$ the category of finite ...