School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 - Mathematisches Institut der Universität, D 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Abstract:
Let be a finite group and a complex representation. Barbara Schmid has shown that the algebra of invariant polynomial functions on the vector space is generated by homogeneous polynomials of degree at most , where is the largest degree of a generator in a minimal generating set for , and is the complex regular representation of . In this note we give a new proof of this result, and at the same time extend it to fields whose characteristic is larger than , the order of the group .