The kernels of irreducible representations of the general linear group

A derivation for the kernel of the irreducible representation T_(λ) of the general linear group GL_n(C) is given. This is then applied to the problem of determining necessary and sufficient conditions under which T_(λ)(A) = T_(λ)(B), where A and B are linear transformations, not necessarily invertible. Finally, conditions are obtained under which normality of T_(λ)(A) implies normality of A.     

The construction of irreducible normalized representations of the general linear group

A method is described for constructing in an explicit form an irreducible representation T of M_n(F), the set of all n × n matrices over the real or complex field F, satisfying the condition T(A^*)=T^*(A) for all A∈M_n(F).     

Modular irreducible representations of the symmetric group as linear codes

We describe a particularly easy way of evaluating the modular irreducible matrix representations of the symmetric group. It shows that Specht’s approach to the ordinary irreducible representations, along Specht polynomials, can be unified with Clausen’s approach to the modular irreducible representations using symmetrized standard bideterminants. The unified method, using symmetrized Specht polynomials, is very easy to explain, and it follows directly from Clausen’s theorem by replacing the indeterminate x_ij of the letter place algebra by x_jⁱ.Our approach is implemented in SYMMETRICA. It was used in order to obtain computational results on code theoretic properties of the p-modular irreducible representation [λ]_p corresponding to a p-regular partition λ via embedding it into representation spaces obtained from ordinary irreducible representations. The first embedding is into the permutation representation induced from the column group of a standard Young tableau of shape λ. The second embedding is the embedding of [λ]_p into the space of , the p-modular representation obtained from the ordinary irreducible representation [λ] by reducing the coefficients modulo p.We include a few tables with dimensions and minimum distances of these codes; others can be found via our home page.     

Actions and irreducible representations of the mapping class group

Let G be a countable discrete group. Call two subgroups and of G commensurable if has finite index in both and . We say that an action of G on a discrete set X has noncommensurable stabilizers if the stabilizers of any two distinct points of X are not commensurable. We prove in this paper that the action of the map ping class group on the complex of curves has noncommensurable stabilizers. Following a method due to Burger and de la Harpe, this action leads to constructions of irreducible unitary representations of the mapping class group. Received: 26 July 1999 / Revised version: 14 May 2001 / Published online: 19 October 2001     

On a conjecture of grant walker for the first occurrence of irreducible modular representations of general linear groups

Let GL _n = GL(n,F _p ) be the group of all n×ninvertible matrices over the field F _p of p elements, p a prime number. As well known, a complete set of irreducible GL _n -modules as submodules of the polynomial algebra was constructed by Stephen Doty and Grant Walker, Ton That Tri (see [1], [4]). Grant Walker has a conjecture that the occurence of these modules is the first occurence of these modules as submodules in the polynomial algebra. The aim of this paper is to give a proof of the above conjecture for p= 2.     

An orthogonal basis in irreducible projective representations of the symmetric group

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Translated from Funktsional'nyi Analiz i Ego Prilozheniya, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 77–78, January–March, 1988.     

Irreducible representations of the full linear group

We obtain some results on Young diagrams. Based on these results, we construct bases for Young symmetry classes of tensors. Using these bases, we obtain a complete reduction of the representation A ??^mA [A∈GL(n,$\text{C}$] and irreducible matrix representations of the full linear group.     

On the existence of noncontinuous irreducible representations of a locally compact group

It is shown that a non-discrete locally compact group has non-continuous irreducible representations.Research sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant AF-AFOSR-903-67 and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant NGR 44-004-042 and Grant NSG-269-62.     

Index of the center of an irreducible nilpotent linear group

Unimprovable estimates of the index of the center of an irreducible nilpotent linear group over an arbitrary field are obtained.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, Nos. 7 and 8, pp. 950–956, July–August, 1991.     

The evaluation of irreducible polynomial representations of the general linear groups and of the unitary groups over fields of characteristic 0

We describe an efficient method for the computer evaluation of the ordinary irreducible polynomial representations of general linear groups using an integral form of the ordinary irreducible representations of symmetric groups. In order to do this, we first give an algebraic explanation of D. E. Littlewood's modification of I. Schur's construction. Then we derive a formula for the entries of the representing matrices which is much more concise and adapted to the effective use of computer calculations. Finally, we describe how one obtains — using this time an orthogonal form of the ordinary irreducible representations of symmetric groups — a version which yields a unitary representation when it is restricted to the unitary subgroup. In this way we adapt D. B. Hunter's results which heavily rely on Littlewood's methods, and boson polynomials come into the play so that we also meet the needs of applications to physics.