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1.1 Induced representations |
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1 | (15) |
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1 | (7) |
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1.1.2 Transitivity and additivity of induction |
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8 | (2) |
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1.1.3 Frobenius character formula |
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10 | (1) |
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1.1.4 Induction and restriction |
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11 | (3) |
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1.1.5 Induced representations and induced operators |
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14 | (1) |
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1.1.6 Frobenius reciprocity |
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14 | (2) |
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1.2 Harmonic analysis on a finite homogeneous space |
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16 | (25) |
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1.2.1 Frobenius reciprocity for permutation representations |
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16 | (6) |
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1.2.2 Spherical functions |
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22 | (12) |
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1.2.3 The other side of Frobenius reciprocity for permutation representations |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (4) |
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41 | (19) |
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1.3.1 Clifford correspondence |
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42 | (7) |
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1.3.2 The little group method |
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49 | (1) |
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1.3.3 Semidirect products |
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50 | (1) |
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1.3.4 Semidirect products with an Abelian normal subgroup |
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51 | (1) |
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1.3.5 The affine group over a finite field |
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52 | (4) |
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1.3.6 The finite Heisenberg group |
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56 | (4) |
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2 Wreath products of finite groups and their representation theory |
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60 | (44) |
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2.1 Basic properties of wreath products of finite groups |
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60 | (16) |
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60 | (3) |
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2.1.2 Composition and exponentiation actions |
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63 | (4) |
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2.1.3 Iterated wreath products and their actions on rooted trees |
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67 | (2) |
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2.1.4 Spherically homogeneous rooted trees and their automorphism group |
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69 | (1) |
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2.1.5 The finite ultrametric space |
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70 | (6) |
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2.2 Two applications of wreath products to group theory |
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76 | (5) |
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2.2.1 The theorem of Kaloujnine and Krasner |
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76 | (2) |
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2.2.2 Primitivity of the exponentiation action |
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78 | (3) |
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2.3 Conjugacy classes of wreath products |
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81 | (11) |
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2.3.1 A general description of conjugacy classes |
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82 | (4) |
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2.3.2 Conjugacy classes of groups of the form C2 G |
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86 | (3) |
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2.3.3 Conjugacy classes of groups of the form F Sn |
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89 | (3) |
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2.4 Representation theory of wreath products |
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92 | (6) |
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2.4.1 The irreducible representations of wreath products |
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92 | (3) |
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2.4.2 The character and matrix coefficients of the representation σ |
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95 | (3) |
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2.5 Representation theory of groups of the form C2 G |
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98 | (3) |
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2.5.1 Representation theory of the finite lamplighter group C2 Cn |
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99 | (1) |
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2.5.2 Representation theory of the hyperoctahedral group C2 Sn |
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100 | (1) |
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2.6 Representation theory of groups of the form F Sn |
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101 | (3) |
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2.6.1 Representation theory of Sm Sn |
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103 | (1) |
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3 Harmonic analysis on some homogeneous spaces of finite wreath products |
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104 | (53) |
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3.1 Harmonic analysis on the composition of two permutation representations |
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104 | (6) |
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3.1.1 Decomposition into irreducible representations |
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104 | (3) |
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3.1.2 Spherical matrix coefficients |
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107 | (3) |
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3.2 The generalized Johnson scheme |
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110 | (20) |
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110 | (2) |
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3.2.2 The homogeneous space h |
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112 | (5) |
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3.2.3 Two special kinds of tensor product |
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117 | (3) |
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3.2.4 The decomposition of L(h) into irreducible representations |
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120 | (3) |
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3.2.5 The spherical functions |
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123 | (4) |
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3.2.6 The homogeneous space V(r, s) and the associated Gelfand pair |
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127 | (3) |
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3.3 Harmonic analysis on exponentiations and on wreath products of permutation representations |
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130 | (15) |
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3.3.1 Exponentiation and wreath products |
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130 | (9) |
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3.3.2 The case G = C2 and Z trivial |
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139 | (3) |
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3.3.3 The case when L(Y) is multiplicity free |
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142 | (2) |
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3.3.4 Exponentiation of finite Gelfand pairs |
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144 | (1) |
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3.4 Harmonic analysis on finite lamplighter spaces |
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145 | (12) |
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3.4.1 Finite lamplighter spaces |
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145 | (3) |
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3.4.2 Spectral analysis of an invariant operator |
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148 | (2) |
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3.4.3 Spectral analysis of lamplighter graphs |
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150 | (3) |
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3.4.4 The lamplighter on the complete graph |
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153 | (4) |
References |
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157 | (4) |
Index |
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