Abstract: | Let be a finite group. Consider a pair of linear characters of subgroups of with and agreeing on . Naturally associated with is a finite monoid . Semigroup representation theory then yields a representation of . If is irreducible, we say that is a weight for . When the underlying field is the field of complex numbers, we obtain a formula for the character of in terms of and . We go on to construct weights for some familiar group representations. |