Linear representations of algebras and groups, Lie theory, associative algebras, multilinear algebra.
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Infinite series of determinants
I am interested in what is known about the following class of sums. For a sequence of matrices $A_i$ (which possibly have different size), I am wondering about examples and methods for evaluating sums ...
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Equivalence of star products on two differents Poisson algebras?
Let $A$, $B$ be two commutative and associative $\mathbb k$-algebras and let $A_\hbar:=A[[\hbar]]$, $B_\hbar:=B[[\hbar]]$ be the corresponding ring of formal series. Of sense [Deformation theory and ...
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What is the group cohomology of the mapping class group of a surface
Let $MCG_g$ be the mapping class group of genus $g$ closed surface.
(Say $MCG_1=SL(2,Z)$).
I would like to know what is the group cohomology of $MCG_g$ with coefficients in Z, such as ...
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Can $T$ act trivial in a repn of SL$_2(\mathbb{Z}_N)$?
I am confronted with the following problem:
If $\rho : \text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}) \to \text{GL}_{\mathbb{C}}(V)$ is a finite dimensional representation such that $\text{ker}(\rho)$ contains the ...
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Tensor products of two irreducible representations of reductive groups and their inclusions
Let $G$ be a reductive group and $\lambda$, $\mu$ and $\nu$ be dominant weights of $G$. Denote by $V_\lambda$ the irreducible representation of $G$ of highest weight $\lambda$. It seems to be true ...
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The number of irreducible projective characters with associated factor set of any finite group
Is the number of a set of irreducible pojective characters with associated factor set always strictly less than the number of the ordinary irreducible characters of a finite group G? If so, can you ...
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Learning representation theory of real reductive lie groups
I am interested in any sources that can be helpful for learning the representation theory of real reductive groups.
I am currently reading Wallach book, but I feel that I don't understand the subject ...
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What is the current status of representations of $GL_n(F)$ (and other algebraic groups)?
What is the current status of representations of $GL_n(F)$ (and other algebraic groups)?
When $F$ is a local field, the representations of $GL_n(F)$ are classified by Bernstein and Zelevinsky in ...
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Reference request for the irreducibility of the adjoint representation of $SU(n)$ [closed]
I would like to quote the following fact:
"The adjoint representation of $SU_n$ on its Lie algebra $\mathfrak{su}_n$ is irreducible."
Do you know any standard reference?
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Are SL(n) Invariants of this wedge product isomorphic to a symmetric product?
In the course of investigating a conjecture about a "strange duality" for sections of line bundles on various models of moduli of sheaves on $\mathbb P^2$, another student and I reduced one special ...
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Fourier series of functions on compact groups
Let $G$ be a compact, second countable, Hausdorff topological group with the normalized Haar measure $\mu$. From Peter-Weyl's theorem we now that for any $f\in \mathrm{L}^2(G)$ the Fourier series of ...
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Cotangent bundle of symmetric space is symmetric space?
Let $G$ be a connected Lie group. Then a symmetric space for $G$ is a homogeneous space $G/H$ where the stabilizer $H$ of a typical point is an open subgroup of the fixed point set of an involution ...
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Algebraic construction of the modular representation of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\hat{\mathbf Z})$
The answer to this question is probably to be found in the theory of automorphic forms, but (I don't know much about it and consequently) after some tries, I did not catch it. Thus I'd be grateful if ...
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Characters and conjugacy classes [migrated]
This comes up in reading David Speyer's answer to this question. Given a finite group $G$ and two non-conjugate elements $x, y,$ how does one construct a unitary representation $\rho$ of $G$ such that ...
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Connection between two theorems on character values?
In a recent arXiv preprint here, Dipendra Prasad has revisited a 1976 theorem of Kostant (Theorem 2 in the paper On Macdonald's $\eta$-function formula, the Laplacian and generalized exponents, ...
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About Blattner`s generating function in the holomorphic case
If $(\pi_\lambda, H_\lambda)$ is a holomorphic discrete series with Harish-Chandra parameter $\lambda$, it is known that $H_\lambda$ decomposes as K-module as $V_\Lambda \otimes S(p^+)$ where ...
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What is the intuition behind the definition of cuspidal representations?
Let $\mathbb{G}$ be a reductive group defined over a number field $K$, let $Z$ be its center, and let $\mathbb{A}:=\mathbb{A}_K$ be the ring of adeles of $K$. Reasonably, we care about the ...
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Decomposition of a representation of SU(N) into representations of SU(N-1)
Let $\omega_k$ be the highest weight of the $k$-th antisymmetric representation of $\mathfrak{su}(N)$. Consider an irreducible representation of $\mathfrak{su}(N)$, characterized by its highest ...
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Character table of $S_7$
Is there any reference where I can find the character table of the symmetric group $S_7$? A simple search in google gave me a GAP program that computes the character table, but I don't understand the ...
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Reduction of different RG lattices to kG modules
Every book on modular representation theory of finite groups introduces p-modular systems and describes how to reduce an ordinary representation $U$ to obtain one in characteristic p (call it ...
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What's the status of Arthur's announced classification for GSp(4)?
In "Automorphic representations of GSp(4)" (2004) (see http://www.math.toronto.edu/arthur/), James Arthur announces a classification of discrete automorphic representations of GSp(4). There are no ...
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Cycles in Quivers and Path Algebras
I cannot find anything giving the algebra of a quiver with a single cycle on three or more vertices. In other words if your quiver consists of n vertices (n>2), and e_i is connected to e_{i+1} (taking ...
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In which fixed-point free representations is the sum of every 3 elements invertible?
A representation $\rho:G\to GL_k(\mathbb{F})$ is called fixed-point free if for every $1\neq g\in G$ and every $0\neq v\in \mathbb{F}^k$, $\rho(g)v\neq v$. Stated differently, it is a representation ...
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Current Status on Langlands Program
The Langlands Program was launched almost fifty years ago, and progress has been made gradually, much of it hard earned. Langlands himself wrote a survey on the functoriality conjecture in 1997, Where ...
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Real representation of group of odd order
Let $G$ be a finite group of odd order. Suppose that $G$ has a real 4-dimensional faithful representation. Is it true that $G$ should be abelian in this case?
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Rep of Non-Commutative Monoids
Let M be a non-commutative monoid. It is possible that all representation of M are one dimensional ??
(for groups the answer is negative. Take a non zero x=[a,b]. Take a representation where x does ...
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Hodge Decompositions and Gamma Factors of Hasse--Weil L-Functions
Let $X$ be a projective variety over a number field $K$. If $\mathfrak{p}\unlhd\mathcal{O}_K$ is a prime ideal we can regard the Euler factor of its $m$th Hasse-Weil $L$-Function at $\mathfrak{p}$ as ...
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Equivariant Formality
Let $G$ be a finite group and $\mathcal{A}$ be a $dg$-algebra. Assume $G$ acts on $\mathcal{A}$, i.e. there exists a homomorphism $G\to {\rm Aut}_{dg}(\mathcal{A})$.
Assume further there exists a ...
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Complexity of rational $\mathrm{GL}_{n(r)}$-modules
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$, and let $G=\mathrm{GL}_n(k)$ for some natural number $n$. For any integer $r\ge 1$, let $G_{(r)}$ denote the $r$th Frobenius ...
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Closed orbits of complete flags in $\mathbb{C}^n$
Let $B$ be a symmetric (or antisymmetric) non-degenerate bilinear form on $\mathbb{C}^n$ and let $G$ be the associated group of automorphisms $O(n)$ (resp. $Sp(n)$). What can we say about the ...
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What is the logarithmic derivative of an (intertwining) operator?
The constant term of the Eisenstein series (for an adele group $GL_2$, say) contains an intertwining operator, often written as $M(s)$. In the form given in Gelbart-Jacquet's Corvallis paper, for ...
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Local Langlands for $GL(2,\mathbf{C})$ and reducible principal series
My naive picture of the local Langlands correspondence for $GL(2,\mathbf{C})$ is this. The Weil group of $\mathbf{C}$ is canonically $\mathbf{C}^\times$. On the Galois side then we're looking at ...
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The representation of a group
Do all the homomorphisms $\phi: SL(2,\mathbb{Z})\ltimes \mathbb{Z}^2 \to GL(2,\mathbb{R})$ always have that $\phi_{|\mathbb{Z}^2}$ is trivial, i.e. $\phi(\mathbb{Z}^2)=I_2$?
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Weyl group action on complexified Iwasawa decomposition
Let $G$ be a complex, reductive, algebraic group and let $G=KB$ be the complexified Iwasawa decomposition of $G$, see also [SW02]. Let $T$ be a maximal torus of $B$, therefore a maximal torus of $G$. ...
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A canonical map Aut$_{\mathsf{Lie}_R}(\mathfrak{n} \rtimes_\pi \mathfrak{g}) \to$ Aut$_{\mathsf{Lie}_R}(\mathfrak{n})$
Let $\mathfrak{n}$, $\mathfrak{g} \in \mathsf{Lie}_R$ be two Lie algebras over a commutative ring $R$, s.t. $\mathfrak{g}$ acts on $\mathfrak{n}$ as a derivation: $\pi:\mathfrak{g} \to ...
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reference help about a result on representation theory
I read the following theorem in a paper without a proof, which I don't understand well. Let $F$ be a global function field, and $v$ be a place of $F$, use $G_r$ to denote $GL_r$.
Theorem: For any ...
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When are two subvarieties of matrices conjugate?
Let $X$ and $Y$ be two subvarieties of $n\times n$ matrices. My question is that is there any condition to guarantee that there exits some matrix $g$ such that $Y=g^{-1} X g$? If such $g$ exists, then ...
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From the representation category of a Lie group and the representation on a homogeneous space, can we reconstruct the stabiliser subgroup reps?
Given a Lie group $G$ and a transitive action $- \triangleright - : G \times X \to X$ on a homogeneous space, we can recover the stabiliser subgroup $H_x$ of a point $x \in X$. It is the subgroup of ...
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Why Whittaker functions are useful?
Whittaker functions appears in Langlands program. Recently, it is shown that some Whittaker functions can be obtained by integrating a function related to decoration over a geometric crystal in ...
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The Markov trace via Bott-Samelson fibers?
Let $H_n$ be the Hecke algebra of GL(n), i.e., the algebra over $\mathbb{Q}(q)$ with generators $T_1,
\ldots, T_{n-1}$ which satisfy the braid relations and also $T^2 = (q-1) T + q$.
Recall the ...
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Number of standard Young tableaux with fixed corner entry
For a partition $\lambda=(\lambda_1\geq \lambda_2\geq\ldots\geq \lambda_k)$ of $n$, let the set of standard Young tableau of shape $\lambda$ be denoted by $SYT(\lambda)$ with boxes at $(i,j)$ denoted ...
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On the character degrees of a finite group with special structure
Let $G$ be a finite group such that $G$ has a normal subgroup $N$ of order $p(p^2+1)/2$, where $p>13$ is an odd prime and $p\ne 239$. Also $G/N\cong \text{PSL}(2,p)$. Can we say that there exists a ...
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Introductory References for Geometric Representation Theory
Would anyone be able to recommend text books that give an introduction to Geometric Representation Theory and survey papers that give an outline of the work that has been done in the field? I'm ...
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Gelfand pair and double coset decomposition
Let $F$ be a non-Archimedean local field with ring of integers $O$, $\pi$ be a uniformizer. Let $\tilde{G}$ be a connected algebraic group over $F$ and splits over $F$, fix a split maximal torus ...
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Zariski closure of orbits of real groups on complex flag manifolds
Let $G$ be a complex reductive algebraic group defined over $\mathbb R$, and $G_0$ its real points. Then the orbits of $G_0$ on $G/B$ need not be real algebraic subvarieties. Take $G=SL_2(\mathbb C)$, ...
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Do cyclic product vectors generatating irreducible representation of a Lie group come from a unique orbit?
Consider a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ which is a carrier space of a unitary, irreducible and strongly continuous representation $\Pi$ of a Lie group $G$. Let $\Pi\otimes \Pi$ denote the corresponding ...
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A little bit of Intuition for Corepresentations from Representations
I asked this question over on Math.Stack --- where it has a bounty --- but I didn't really get a helpful response so I am asking the question here. One commenter suggests that I am confusing left- ...
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Hall-Littlewood functions and functions on the nilpotent cone
The following observation between the spaces of global sections of line bundles on the nilpotent cone and the Hall-Littlewood polynomials is made in a recent physics preprint 1403.0585. Is this a ...
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Jacobson radical and group rings/subalgebras
Let $G$ be a finite group and $N\le G$ be a subgroup. Consider the group algebra $kN$ as a subalgebra of $kG$ over an algebraically closed field $k$ of positive characteristic.
What can we deduce ...
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Exterior products of Admissible Representations
I have an $SL(n,R)$ admissible representation $V$, and I wish to consider $V\wedge V$. Is it possible that $V\wedge V$ is not admissible? What if $V$ is irreducible?
As a specific example, consider ...
