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Computing character tables of groups of type M.G.A

Part of: Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2011

Thomas Breuer
Thomas Breuer*
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany (email: sam@math.rwth-aachen.de)

Abstract

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We describe a method for constructing the character table of a group of type M.G.A from the character tables of the subgroup M.G and the factor group G.A, provided that A acts suitably on M.G. This simplifies and generalizes a recently published method.

MSC classification

Secondary: 20C15: Ordinary representations and characters 20C20: Modular representations and characters 20C40: Computational methods
Type
Research Article
Information
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics , Volume 14 , 2011 , pp. 173 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © London Mathematical Society 2011

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