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Tall profinite groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

M.F. Hutchinson
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales.
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Abstract

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A classical theorem of Camille Jordan concerning finite linear groups is used to give two structural characterisations of profinite groups which have only finitely many pairwise inequivalent, continuous, irreducible, unitary representations of each degree. Our characterisations of such groups involve properties of their open normal subgroups.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1978

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