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Course 3413 - Group Representations Sample Paper I: DR Timothy Murphy December 2010

This document provides 9 questions for a group representations course. The questions cover topics such as: 1) Defining group representations and simple representations. Determining all simple representations of S(3). 2) Defining semisimple representations and proving every finite-dimensional representation of a finite group over C is semisimple. Showing the natural representation of Sn splits into 2 parts. 3) Determining the conjugacy classes and character table of S4, and expressing products of simple representations of S4 as sums. The questions require determining properties of representations for various groups, such as degrees of representations, conjugacy classes, and expressing products of representations.

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Course 3413 - Group Representations Sample Paper I: DR Timothy Murphy December 2010

This document provides 9 questions for a group representations course. The questions cover topics such as: 1) Defining group representations and simple representations. Determining all simple representations of S(3). 2) Defining semisimple representations and proving every finite-dimensional representation of a finite group over C is semisimple. Showing the natural representation of Sn splits into 2 parts. 3) Determining the conjugacy classes and character table of S4, and expressing products of simple representations of S4 as sums. The questions require determining properties of representations for various groups, such as degrees of representations, conjugacy classes, and expressing products of representations.

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Course 3413 Group Representations

Sample Paper I
Dr Timothy Murphy
December 2010
Attempt 6 questions. (If you attempt more, only the best 6 will
be counted.) All questions carry the same number of marks.
Unless otherwise stated, all groups are compact (or finite), and
all representations are of finite degree over C.
1. What is a group representation?
What is meant by saying that a representation is simple?
Determine from first principles all simple representations of S(3).
2. What is meant by saying that the representation is semisimple?
Prove that every finite-dimensional representation of a finite group
over C is semisimple.
Show that the natural representation of Sn in Cn (by permutation of
coordinates) splits into 2 simple parts, for any n > 1.
3. Determine the conjugacy classes in S4 , and draw up its character table.
Determine also the representation-ring for S4 , ie express the product
of each pair of simple representations as a sum of simple representations.
More questions overleaf !

4. Prove that the number of simple representations of a finite group G is


equal to the number of conjugacy classes in G.
5. Show that if the finite group G has simple representations 1 , . . . , s
then
deg2 1 + + deg2 s = |G|.
Determine the degrees of the simple representations of S6 .
6. Show that the dodecahedron has 60 proper symmetries, and determine
how these are divided into conjugacy classes.
7. Define a measure on a compact space X.
Sketch the proof that if G is a compact group then there exists a unique
invariant measure on G with (1) = 1.
8. Determine the simple representations of SO(2).
Determine the simple representations of O(2).
9. Determine the conjugacy classes in SU(2).
Prove that SU(2) has one simple representation of each dimension
0, 1, 2, . . . , and determine the character of this representation.

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