Groups And Characters

Author : Gordon James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139811053
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representations and Characters of Groups written by Gordon James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a modern introduction to the representation theory of finite groups. Now in its second edition, the authors have revised the text and added much new material. The theory is developed in terms of modules, since this is appropriate for more advanced work, but considerable emphasis is placed upon constructing characters. Included here are the character tables of all groups of order less than 32, and all simple groups of order less than 1000. Applications covered include Burnside's paqb theorem, the use of character theory in studying subgroup structure and permutation groups, and how to use representation theory to investigate molecular vibration. Each chapter features a variety of exercises, with full solutions provided at the end of the book. This will be ideal as a course text in representation theory, and in view of the applications, will be of interest to chemists and physicists as well as mathematicians.

Author : Victor E Hill
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 135144381X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Groups and Characters written by Victor E Hill and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group representation theory is both elegant and practical, with important applications to quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, crystallography, and other fields in the physical sciences. This book offers an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of groups and of group characters. Designed as a rapid survey of the subject, it emphasizes examples and applications of the theorems, and avoids many of the longer and more difficult proofs. The text includes sections that provide the mathematical basis for some of the applications of group theory. It also offers numerous exercises, some stressing computation of concrete examples, others stressing development of the theory.

Author : Dudley Ernest Littlewood
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821840673
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Group Characters and Matrix Representations of Groups written by Dudley Ernest Littlewood and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in 1940, this book remains a classical source on representations and characters of finite and compact groups. The book starts with necessary information about matrices, algebras, and groups. Then the author proceeds to representations of finite groups. Of particular interest in this part of the book are several chapters devoted to representations and characters of symmetric groups and the closely related theory of symmetric polynomials. The concluding chapters present the representation theory of classical compact Lie groups, including a detailed description of representations of the unitary and orthogonal groups. The book, which can be read with minimal prerequisites (an undergraduate algebra course), allows the reader to get a good understanding of beautiful classical results about group representations.

Author : I. Martin Isaacs
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470434857
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Characters of Solvable Groups written by I. Martin Isaacs and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which can be considered as a sequel of the author's famous book Character Theory of Finite Groups, concerns the character theory of finite solvable groups and other groups that have an abundance of normal subgroups. It is subdivided into three parts: -theory, character correspondences, and M-groups. The -theory section contains an exposition of D. Gajendragadkar's -special characters, and it includes various extensions, generalizations, and applications of his work. The character correspondences section proves the McKay character counting conjecture and the Alperin weight conjecture for solvable groups, and it constructs a canonical McKay bijection for odd-order groups. In addition to a review of some basic material on M-groups, the third section contains an exposition of the use of symplectic modules for studying M-groups. In particular, an accessible presentation of E. C. Dade's deep results on monomial characters of odd prime-power degree is included. Very little of this material has previously appeared in book form, and much of it is based on the author's research. By reading a clean and accessible presentation written by the leading expert in the field, researchers and graduate students will be inspired to learn and work in this area that has fascinated the author for decades.

Author : Larry C. Grove
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118030931
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Groups and Characters written by Larry C. Grove and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, full-year course on both group theory and ordinary character theory--essential tools for mathematics and the physical sciences One of the few treatments available combining both group theory and character theory, Groups and Characters is an effective general textbook on these two fundamentally connected subjects. Presuming only a basic knowledge of abstract algebra as in a first-year graduate course, the text opens with a review of background material and then guides readers carefully through several of the most important aspects of groups and characters, concentrating mainly on finite groups. Challenging yet accessible, Groups and Characters features: * An extensive collection of examples surveying many different types of groups, including Sylow subgroups of symmetric groups, affine groups of fields, the Mathieu groups, and symplectic groups * A thorough, easy-to-follow discussion of Polya-Redfield enumeration, with applications to combinatorics * Inclusive explorations of the transfer function and normal complements, induction and restriction of characters, Clifford theory, characters of symmetric and alternating groups, Frobenius groups, and the Schur index * Illuminating accounts of several computational aspects of group theory, such as the Schreier-Sims algorithm, Todd-Coxeter coset enumeration, and algorithms for generating character tables As valuable as Groups and Characters will prove as a textbook for mathematicians, it has broader applications. With chapters suitable for use as independent review units, along with a full bibliography and index, it will be a dependable general reference for chemists, physicists, and crystallographers.

Author : M. J. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521234405
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representations and Characters of Finite Groups written by M. J. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representation theory and character theory have proved essential in the study of finite simple groups since their early development by Frobenius. The author begins by presenting the foundations of character theory in a style accessible to advanced undergraduates that requires only a basic knowledge of group theory and general algebra. This theme is then expanded in a self-contained account providing an introduction to the application of character theory to the classification of simple groups. The book follows both strands of the theory: the exceptional characteristics of Suzuki and Feit and the block character theory of Brauer and includes refinements of original proofs that have become available as the subject has grown.

Author : Gabriel Navarro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521595134
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Characters and Blocks of Finite Groups written by Gabriel Navarro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a clear, accessible and up-to-date exposition of modular representation theory of finite groups from a character-theoretic viewpoint. After a short review of the necessary background material, the early chapters introduce Brauer characters and blocks and develop their basic properties. The next three chapters study and prove Brauer's first, second and third main theorems in turn. These results are then applied to prove a major application of finite groups, the Glauberman Z*-theorem. Later chapters examine Brauer characters in more detail. The relationship between blocks and normal subgroups is also explored and the modular characters and blocks in p-solvable groups are discussed. Finally, the character theory of groups with a Sylow p-subgroup of order p is studied. Each chapter concludes with a set of problems. The book is aimed at graduate students, with some previous knowledge of ordinary character theory, and researchers studying the representation theory of finite groups.

Author : Alexander Zimmermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110702444
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Characters of Groups and Lattices over Orders written by Alexander Zimmermann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first textbook leading coherently from classical character theory to the theory of lattices over orders and integral representations of finite groups. After the introduction to simple modules allowing a non degenerate invariant bilinear form in any characteristic the author illustrates step by step the approach given by Sin and Willems. Dirichlet characters and results on primes in arithmetic progressions are given as applications.

Author : Meinolf Geck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198502500
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Characters of Finite Coxeter Groups and Iwahori-Hecke Algebras written by Meinolf Geck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finite Coxeter groups and related structures arise naturally in several branches of mathematics such as the theory of Lie algebras and algebraic groups. The corresponding Iwahori-Hecke algebras are then obtained by a certain deformation process which have applications in the representation theory of groups of Lie type and the theory of knots and links. This book develops the theory of conjugacy classes and irreducible character, both for finite Coxeter groups and the associated Iwahori-Hecke algebras. Topics covered range from classical results to more recent developments and are clear and concise. This is the first book to develop these subjects both from a theoretical and an algorithmic point of view in a systematic way, covering all types of finite Coxeter groups.

Author : Benjamin Steinberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461407761
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representation Theory of Finite Groups written by Benjamin Steinberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to present group representation theory at a level accessible to mature undergraduate students and beginning graduate students. This is achieved by mainly keeping the required background to the level of undergraduate linear algebra, group theory and very basic ring theory. Module theory and Wedderburn theory, as well as tensor products, are deliberately avoided. Instead, we take an approach based on discrete Fourier Analysis. Applications to the spectral theory of graphs are given to help the student appreciate the usefulness of the subject. A number of exercises are included. This book is intended for a 3rd/4th undergraduate course or an introductory graduate course on group representation theory. However, it can also be used as a reference for workers in all areas of mathematics and statistics.