Minimal degrees of faithful quasi-permutation representations for direct products of p-groups

In [2], the algorithms of c(G), q(G) and p(G), the minimal degrees of faithful quasi-permutation and permutation representations of a finite group G are given. The main purpose of this paper is to consider the relationship between these minimal degrees of non-trivial p-groups H and K with the group H×K.     

Noetherianity of the space of irreducible representations

LetR be an associative ring with identity. We study an elementary generalization of the classical Zariski topology, applied to the set of isomorphism classes of simple leftR-modules (or, more generally, simple objects in a complete abelian category). Under this topology the points are closed, and whenR is left noetherian the corresponding topological space is noetherian. IfR is commutative (or PI, or FBN) the corresponding topological space is naturally homeomorphic to the maximal spectrum, equipped with the Zariski topology. WhenR is the first Weyl algebra (in characteristic zero) we obtain a one-dimensional irreducible noetherian topological space. Comparisons with topologies induced from those on A. L. Rosenberg’s spectra are briefly noted. The author’s research was supported in part by NSF grants DMS-9970413 and DMS-0196236.     

Minimal faithful representations of reductive Lie algebras

Let G and H be Lie groups with Lie algebras and . Let G be connected. We prove that a Lie algebra homomorphism is exact if and only if it is completely positive. The main resource is a corresponding theorem about representations on Hilbert spaces. This article summarizes the main results of [1]. Received: 6 December 2005     

Constructing irreducible representations of discrete groups

The decomposition of unitary representations of a discrete group obtained by induction from a subgroup involves commensurators. In particular Mackey has shown that quasi-regular representations are irreducible if and only if the corresponding subgroups are self-commensurizing. The purpose of this work is to describe general constructions of pairs of groups Γ₀ with Γ its own commensurator in Γ. These constructions are then applied to groups of isometries of hyperbolic spaces and to lattices in algebraic groups.     

On irreducible representations of discrete Heisenberg groups

We prove that the irreducible representations with finite weight of discrete nilpotent groups of class 2, including the discrete Heisenberg groups, are monomial representations and obtain their classification for the group Heis(3, ?).     

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     

Some remarks on the ring

Some properties like factoriality, seminormality and being a Krull domain, … are studied on power series rings , and over a commutative ring A. If \(\mathbb{X}\) is an uncountable set, there is an other sub-ring of that stands strictly between and , we denote it by . In this paper, we study properties mentioned before on the ring .