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Polynomials and Representations III
Complete Symmetric Polynomials Corresponding to the elementary symmetric polynomial, we define the complete symmetric polynomials in to be: For example when , we have: Thus, written as a sum of monomial symmetric polynomials, we have Note that while the elementary symmetric polynomials only go … Continue reading
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Polynomials and Representations II
More About Partitions Recall that a partition is a sequence of weakly decreasing non-negative integers, where appending or dropping ending zeros gives us the same partition. A partition is usually represented graphically as a table of boxes or dots: We will … Continue reading
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Polynomials and Representations I
We have already seen symmetric polynomials and some of their applications in an earlier article. Let us delve into this a little more deeply. Consider the ring of integer polynomials. The symmetric group acts on it by permuting the variables; specifically, … Continue reading
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Tagged combinatorics, partitions, polynomials, representation theory, symmetric polynomials
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Modular Representation Theory (IV)
Continuing our discussion of modular representation theory, we will now discuss block theory. Previously, we saw that in any ring R, there is at most one way to write where is a set of orthogonal and centrally primitive idempotents. If such an … Continue reading
Idempotents and Decomposition
Let R be a general ring, not necessarily commutative. An element x∈R is said to be idempotent if x2 = x. Note An endomorphism f of an R-module M (i.e. ) is an idempotent if and only if f is a projection, i.e. M = ker(f) ⊕ im(f) and f … Continue reading
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Modular Representation Theory (III)
Let’s work out some explicit examples of modular characters. First, we have a summary of the main results. Let be the modular characters of the simple k[G]-modules; they form a basis of Let be those of the projective indecomposable k[G]-modules; they form a basis … Continue reading
Modular Representation Theory (II)
We continue our discussion of modular representations; recall that all modules are finitely-generated even if we do not explicitly say so. First, we introduce a new notation: for each projective finitely-generated k[G]-module P, we have a unique projective finitely-generated R[G]-module denoted for which … Continue reading
Modular Representation Theory (I)
Let K be a field and G a finite group. We know that when char(K) does not divide |G|, the group algebra K[G] is semisimple. Conversely we have: Proposition. If char(K) divides |G|, then K[G] is not semisimple. Proof Let , a two-sided … Continue reading
Projective Modules and the Grothendieck Group
This is a continuation of the previous article. Throughout this article, R is an artinian ring (and hence noetherian) and all modules are finitely-generated. Let K(R) be the Grothendieck group of all finitely-generated R-modules; K(R) is the free abelian group generated by [M] for simple … Continue reading
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Projective Modules and Artinian Rings
Projective Modules Recall that Hom(M, -) is left-exact: for any module M and exact , we get an exact sequence Definition. A module M is projective if Hom(M, -) is exact, i.e. if for any surjective N→N”, the resulting HomR(M, N) → HomR(M, N”) is … Continue reading
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Tagged artinian, free modules, left-exact, projective modules, semisimple rings, splitting lemma
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Mathematics and Such 