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For a finite group $G$, let $p(G)$ denote the minimal degree of a faithful permutation representation of $G$. The minimal degree of a faithful representation of $G$ by quasi-permutation matrices over the fields $mathbb{C}$ and $mathbb{Q}$ are denoted by $c(G)$ and $q(G)$ respectively. In general $c(G)leq q(G)leq p(G)$ and either inequality may be strict. In this paper, we study the representation theory of the group $G =$ Hol$(C_{p^{n}})$, which is the holomorph of a cyclic group of order $p^n$, $p$ a prime. This group is metacyclic when $p$ is odd and metabelian but not metacyclic when $p=2$ and $n geq 3$. We explicitly describe the set of all isomorphism types of irreducible representations of $G$ over the field of complex numbers $mathbb{C}$ as well as the isomorphism types over the field of rational numbers $mathbb{Q}$. We compute the Wedderburn decomposition of the rational group algebra of $G$. Using the descriptions of the irreducible representations of $G$ over $mathbb{C}$ and over $mathbb{Q}$, we show that $c(G) = q(G) = p(G) = p^n$ for any prime $p$. The proofs are often different for the case of $p$ odd and $p=2$.
We study Koopman and quasi-regular representations corresponding to the action of arbitrary weakly branch group G on the boundary of a rooted tree T. One of the main results is that in the case of a quasi-invariant Bernoulli measure on the boundary of T the corresponding Koopman representation of G is irreducible (under some general conditions). We also show that quasi-regular representations of G corresponding to different orbits and Koopman representations corresponding to different Bernoulli measures on the boundary of T are pairwise disjoint. This gives two continual collections of pairwise disjoint irreducible representations of a weakly branch group. Another corollary of our results is triviality of the centralizer of G in various groups of transformations on the boundary of T.
This paper defines and studies permutation representations on the equivariant cohomology of Schubert varieties, as representations both over C and over C[t_1, t_2,...,t_n]. We show these group actions are the same as an action of simple transpositions studied geometrically by M. Brion, and give topological meaning to the divided difference operators studied by Berstein-Gelfand-Gelfand, Demazure, Kostant-Kumar, and others. We analyze these representations using the combinatorial approach to equivariant cohomology introduced by Goresky-Kottwitz-MacPherson. We find that each permutation representation on equivariant cohomology produces a representation on ordinary cohomology that is trivial, though the equivariant representation is not.
In the 40s, Mayer introduced a construction of (simplicial) $p$-complex by using the unsigned boundary map and taking coefficients of chains modulo $p$. We look at such a $p$-complex associated to an $(n-1)$-simplex; in which case, this is also a $p$-complex of representations of the symmetric group of rank $n$ - specifically, of permutation modules associated to two-row compositions. In this article, we calculate the so-called slash homology - a homology theory introduced by Khovanov and Qi - of such a $p$-complex. We show that every non-trivial slash homology group appears as an irreducible representation associated to two-row partitions, and how this calculation leads to a basis of these irreducible representations given by the so-called $p$-standard tableaux.
In this paper we study invariant rings arising in the study of finite dimensional algebraic structures. The rings we encounter are graded rings of the form $K[U]^{Gamma}$ where $Gamma$ is a product of general linear groups over a field $K$ of characteristic zero, and $U$ is a finite dimensional rational representation of $Gamma$. We will calculate the Hilbert series of such rings using the representation theory of the symmetric groups and Schur-Weyl duality. We focus on the case where $U=text{End}(W^{oplus k})$ and $Gamma = text{GL}(W)$ and on the case where $U=text{End}(Votimes W)$ and $Gamma = text{GL}(V)times text{GL}(W)$, though the methods introduced here can also be applied in more general framework. For the two aforementioned cases we calculate the Hilbert function of the ring of invariants in terms of Littlewood-Richardson and Kronecker coefficients. When the vector spaces are of dimension 2 we also give an explicit calculation of this Hilbert series.
We classify the localizing tensor ideals of the integral stable module category for any finite group $G$. This results in a generic classification of $mathbb{Z}[G]$-lattices of finite and infinite rank and globalizes the modular case established in celebrated work of Benson, Iyengar, and Krause. Further consequences include a verification of the generalized telescope conjecture in this context, a tensor product formula for integral cohomological support, as well as a generalization of Quillens stratification theorem for group cohomology. Our proof makes use of novel descent techniques for stratification in tensor-triangular geometry that are of independent interest.