| | Amazon.com: Representation Theory of Finite Groups: Algebra and Arithmetic (Graduate Studies in Mathematics): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | And when a group (finite or otherwise) acts on something else (as a set of symmetries, for example), one ends up with a natural representation of the group. |
 | | This book is an introduction to the representation theory of finite groups from an algebraic point of view, regarding representations as modules over the group algebra. |
 | | The book has an extensive development of the semisimple case, where the characteristic of the field is zero or is prime to the order of the group, and builds the foundations of the modular case, where the characteristic of the field divides the order of the group. |
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