Background material

Author(s)

• Karpilovsky, Gregory

Bibliographic Information

Background material

Gregory Karpilovsky

（North-Holland mathematics studies, 175 . Group representations / Gregory Karpilovsky ; v. 1, pt. A）

North-Holland, 1992

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xlii) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The principal object of this multi-volume treatise is to provide, in a self-contained manner, comprehensive coverage of the mainstream of group representation theory. The audience for these volumes consists of aspiring graduate students and mature mathematicians working in the field of group representations. No mathematical knowledge is presupposed beyond the rudiments of abstract algebra, set theory and field theory; however, a certain maturity in mathematical reasoning is required. Apart from a few obvious exceptions, the volumes are entirely self-contained. The style of the presentation is informal: the author is not afraid to repeat definitions and formulas when necessary. Many sections begin with a nontechnical description and special effort has been made to render the exposition transparent.

Table of Contents

Background Material. Rings and Modules. Artinian and Semilocal Rings. Homological Algebra. Restriction, Induction and Coinduction. Semiperfect Rings. Complexes, Homology and Resolutions. Heller Operators. Group Algebras. Group Cohomology. Graded Algebras and Crossed Products. Algebras over Fields. The Brauer Group. Indecomposable Modules and Ground Field Extensions. The Schur Index. Frobenius and Symmetric Algebras. Dedekind Domains and Discrete Valuation Rings. Introduction to Group Representations. Generalities. Induced Modules. Introduction to Characters. An Invitation to Characters. Induction Theorems and Applications. Central, Faithful and Permutation Characters. Character Tables. Zeros of Characters. Characters, Conjugate Elements and Commutators. The Frobenius-Schur Indicator. Characters and Hall Subgroups. Extensions of Characters. Irreducible Constituents and Conjugacy Classes. Fixed-Point Spaces and Powers of Characters. Determinants of Characters. Tensor Induction of Characters. Knorr's Generalized Character. Characters of Centralizer Rings. Characters and Relative Normal Complements. Isometries and Generalized Characters. Exceptional Characters. Frobenius Groups. Applications of Characters. Bibliography. Notation. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA18303684
• ISBN:
  • 044488632X
• LCCN: 92014786
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: lxii, 620 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 411.62
  • NDC8 : 411.6
  • LCC : QA176
  • DC20 : 512/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Representations of groups
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00027270