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Is the monster group maximal in SO(196883)?
$\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}$The smallest degree of a nontrivial complex representation of the monster group $ M $ is $ 196883 $. This irrep has Schur indicator $ 1 $, so the image must lie in the ...
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Why should Serre's conjecture on congruence subgroup property hold?
There seem to be several related properties of an algebraic group, exhibiting the dichotomy between rank 1 and rank $\ge2$.
Whether a lattice in the group satisfies the congruence subgroup property,
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What are the matrix coefficients associated with the irreducible representations of compact real linear algebraic groups?
What are the matrix coefficients associated with the irreducible representations of a compact real linear algebraic group $G$?
Peter-Weyl tells us that $L^2(G)$ is the (closure of) $\bigoplus_\pi A_{\...
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What do we know about isospectral Cayley graphs?
Let $\Gamma_1=\Gamma_1(G_1,S_1)$ (respectively $\Gamma_2=\Gamma_2(G_2,S_2)$) be a Cayley graph for the group $G_1$ and the finite generating set $S_1$ (respectively $G_2$ and the finite generating set ...
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The weak restriction of the Jacquet module
Let $P= MN$ be a parabolic subgroup of a reductive p-adic group $G$, and $(\pi, V)$ is an irreducible, admissible representation of $G$. The Jacquet module is the representation $(\pi_N, V_N)$, where $...
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Representation theory of SU(2) as a discrete group
The representation theory of the Lie group $SU(2)$ is well understood, easy to describe, and in fact central to the classical theory of representation theory of compact Lie groups.
But what happens ...
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What is known about the projective representations of $\mathrm{SO}(n_1,n_2)$?
He${}$llo MO.
Let $\mathrm{O}(n_1,n_2)$ be the pseudo-orthogonal group. I am interested in its (continuous, not necessarily unitary, finite-dimensional) irreducible projective representations, for ...
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Possible dimensions for triples of unitary irreducible representations whose tensor product contains the identity
For which triples $\{A,B,C\}$ of positive integers does there exist a (finite or compact) group $G$ with unitary irreducible representations of dimensions $A$,$B$, and $ C$ whose tensor product ...
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Status of RFD groups and $C^*$-algebras
Motivated by this question and its great answers, I become very curious to know what do we know about RFD (residually finite dimensional) groups and $C^*$-algebras, e.g. do we know how these ...
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Aut/Inn/Out Automorphism Groups of the unitary group $𝑈(𝑁)$
Given a group $G$, we denote the center Z$(G)$, we like to know the
automorphism group Aut($G$), the outer automorphism Out($G$) and the inner automorphism Inn($G$). They form short exact sequences:
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Representation R where the center of Spin group acts trivially on R
For the following groups, I would like to know the given this group G and its representation R such that the center of G acts trivially (i.e. acts nothing) on R.
Let us denote $\operatorname{Spin}(n,\...
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Mackey Obstruction Class with Integral Coefficients
Consider an exact sequence of groups
\begin{equation}
1\rightarrow H\rightarrow K\rightarrow G \rightarrow1~.
\end{equation}
Mackey theory enables us to understand representations of $K$ in terms of ...
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What are the general zonal spherical functions for ${\rm SO}(n)/{\rm SO}(n-1)$?
The zonal spherical functions [1] on the sphere $(G={\rm SO}(n)$, $K={\rm SO}(n-1))$ are the Gegenbauer or ultraspherical polynomials if one considers the irreducible representations of ${\rm SO}(n)$ ...
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Does Branching in the Weight Diagram affect an embedding?
All groups here are compact semisimple Lie groups. Out of laziness I will use $B_7$ to mean $Spin(15)$.
Suppose that one has a group $H$ and a subgroup $G$. The embedding determines the decomposition ...
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Construction of an algebra with prescribed representation of the automorphism group.
For this discussion, $G$ is a compact semisimple Lie Group.
For many of the common representations of compact groups, there is a realization of the representation as the automorphisms of some ...
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Are the integer points of a simple linear algebraic group 2-generated?
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Let $ K $ be a totally real number field. Let $ \mathcal{O}_K $ be the ring of integers of $ K $. Let $ G $ be a simple linear algebraic group. Suppose that $ G(\mathbb{R}) $ is a compact Lie ...
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The centralizer and normalizer of products of (SU(n) $\times$ SU(p) $\times$ …) in U(m)
$\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}\DeclareMathOperator\U{U}\DeclareMathOperator\Spin{Spin}
$Consider the special unitary group $\SU(n)$ and the unitary group $\U(m)$.
Below I specify a specfic way to embed $...
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The centralizer and normalizer of products of (Spin(n) $\times \dots$) in U(m)
$\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}\DeclareMathOperator\U{U}\DeclareMathOperator\Spin{Spin}$
Consider the spin group $\Spin(n)$ and the unitary group $\U(16)$.
Below I specify a specfic way to embed $(\Spin(...
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Explicit tensor product decomposition for the representations of PSL(2,q)
$\DeclareMathOperator\PSL{PSL}$Let the type of the character theory of a finite group $G$ be the list $[[d_1,n_1], \dotsc, [d_k,n_k]]$ with $1=d_1 < \dotsb < d_k$ and $n_i$ the number of ...
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Multiplicative subgroups of $GL(V)$ which are almost additively closed
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According to comments of YCor and Vincent, I revise the question.I appreciate their comments:
Let $G$ be a group.
We say that $G$ is a special group if it is isomorphic to a subgroup $H$ ...
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Component groups of stabilizers for linear representations
Let $G$ be a connected simple reductive group over $\mathbb C$. Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional complex representation of $G$.
Given a vector $v \in V$, it is natural to consider its stabilizer group $...
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on the open bruhat cell
Let $G$ a connected reductive group and $S=U^{-}TU$ the open cell.
Do we have $G=\bigcup\limits_{g\in G}gSg^{-1}$?
And also if I assume that $G$ is adjoint and $\overline{G}$ is the de Concini-...
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A reference for this statement (representations of universal central extensions)
Let $G$ be a connected Lie group with universal cover $\tilde{G}$. I would really appreciate if someone could give me a reference for the proof of the following fact:
"Every projective unitary ...
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minuscule representations and classical groups
Let $G$ a semisimple group over an algebraically closed field $k$.
We assume that $G$ is classical.
We call a $z$-extension, a group $\tilde{G}$ such that $\tilde{G}$ is a central extension of $G$ by ...
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