If G is a second countable locally compact Hausdorff groupoid with Haar system, we show that every representation induced from an irreducible representation of a stability group is irreducible.

We describe a particularly easy way of evaluating the modular irreducible matrix representations of the symmetric group. It shows that Specht’s approach to the ordinary irreducible representations, along Specht polynomials, can be unified with Clausen’s approach to the modular irreducible representations using symmetrized standard bideterminants. The unified method, using symmetrized Specht pol...

For a given finite group G, we have that the number of irreducible representations of G is equal to the number of conjugacy classes of G. Although numerically equal, there is no general formula to map the conjugacy classes of a group to its irreducible representations. For the case of the symmetric group Sn, however, there is a remarkably simple correspondence; we will see that each irreducible...

where St and S2 are projective representations of G. An irreducible projective representation is one that is not reducible. In this paper, we study the degrees of irreducible projective representations of a finite group G over an algebraically closed field K. In Theorem 2, we require further that char KJ(\G\. The degree of an irreducible projective representation of a finite group G, over the c...

The reduced Gassner representation is a multi-parameter representation of Pn, the pure braid group on n strings. Specializing the parameters t1, t2,...,tn to nonzero complex numbers x1,x2,...,xn gives a representation Gn(x1,...,xn): Pn GL( n 1 ) which is irreducible if and only if x1...xn 1.We find a sufficient condition that guarantees that the tensor product of an irreducible Gn(x1,...,xn)wit...

For X a curve over a field of positive characteristic, we investigate when the canonical representation of Aut(X) on H0(X , X) is irreducible. Any curve with an irreducible canonical representation must either be superspecial or ordinary. Having a small automorphism group is an obstruction to having irreducible canonical representation; with this motivation, the bulk of the paper is spent bound...