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Why there is a relation among the second-order minors of a symmetric $4\times 4$ matrix?

A $4\times 4$ symmetric matrix $$ \left( \begin{array}{cccc} a_{11} & a_{12} & a_{13} & a_{14} \\ a_{12} & a_{22} & a_{23} & a_{24} \\ a_{13} & a_{23} & a_{33} & ...
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What is known about ordinary character values at involutions?

Let $G$ be a finite group and let $\chi$ be the character of an irreducible complex representation $\rho$ of $G$ on $V$. Let $x$ be an involution in $G$. I'd like to ask the following Question 1: ...
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A Dynkin type classification result in linear algebra

Let $G$ be a finite directed acyclic graph. The Cartan matrix $C_G=C$ of $G$ is defined as the matrix with rows and colums indexed by the vertices of $G$ and $c_{i,j}$ counts the number of paths from $...
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Representability of polymatroids over $GF(2)$

A polymatroid is a finite set $X$ and a rank function $d : P(X) \to {\mathbb N}$ such that 1) $d(\varnothing)=0$, 2) $A \subset B$ implies $d(A) \leq d(B)$, and 3) $d(A \cap B) + d(A \cup B) \leq d(...
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Full expansion of $\det(I+\varepsilon A)$

It is well known that given a $n \times n$ matrix $A$, it holds that $$ \det(I + \varepsilon A)= 1 + \varepsilon \operatorname{tr}(A) + O(\varepsilon ^2).$$ I would need a full representation of $ \...
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A numerical matrix of power sum polynomials

Let $p_i=x_1^i+x_2^i+\cdots+x_m^i=\sum_{k=1}^mx_k^i$ be the power sum polynomials. Then, the determinant of the $m\times m$ Hankel matrix $M_m=(p_{i+j-2})$, for $1\leq i,j\leq m$, has a neat ...
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Example of nice isomorphism between Cl$_{p,q}(\mathbb R)$ and matrix algebras over $\mathbb R,\mathbb C,\mathbb H,\mathbb R^2,\mathbb C^2,\mathbb H^2$

$\DeclareMathOperator\Cl{Cl}$It is known that every Clifford Algebra $\Cl(Q)$ over the real numbers where $Q: \mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R$ is a non-degenerate quadratic form is isomorphic to a matrix ...
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Relative invariants of $P\oplus P^*$

Let $P$ be a $\mathrm{GL}(V)$-module, and assume that the decomposition of $P$ into irreducible submodules is known. By a relative invariant of the module $P\oplus P^*$, I mean a homogeneous nonzero ...
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Embedding into Permutation Representation

Let $\rho$ be irreducible representation of group $G$. How one can characterize all subgroups $H< G$ such that $\rho$ can be embedded into permutation representation $F^X$, where $X=G/H$.
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Invariants of symmetric forms with respect to the symplectic group

Take a 6-dimensional vector space $V$ (for simplicity, over $\mathbb{C}$) and play the following game (for example, by employing the online Lie program): consider the 21-dimensional space $S^2V^*$ of ...
Giovanni Moreno's user avatar
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A table for irreducible integral representation of finite cyclic groups

Is there such a table where the irreducible integral representations of finite cyclic groups are listed? Edited: Thanks for Todd Leason's comment.Acutally,i want to know all inequivalent ...
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Decomposition of Hilbert spaces via groups and algebras representations

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a complex finite dimensional Hilbert space and let $\mathcal{A}\subseteq \mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H})$. I am looking to understand the different decompositions of $\mathcal{H}$ ...
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Image of Frobenius element under irreducible representation is diagonalizable

Let $K/ \mathbb Q$ be a Galois extension, and $\rho$ be an irreducible representation of the Galois group $Gal(K/ \mathbb Q)$. Consider an integer prime $p$ which doesn't ramify in $K$, and let $\...
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