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Finite groups of Lie type and their representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

By
Gerhard Hiss
Edited by
C. M. Campbell ,
M. R. Quick ,
E. F. Robertson ,
C. M. Roney-Dougal ,
G. C. Smith  and
G. Traustason
Gerhard Hiss
Affiliation:
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
C. M. Campbell
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
M. R. Quick
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
E. F. Robertson
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
C. M. Roney-Dougal
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
G. C. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Bath
G. Traustason
Affiliation:
University of Bath
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This article is a slightly expanded account of the series of four lectures I gave at the conference. It is intended as a (non-comprehensive) survey covering some important aspects of the representation theory of finite groups of Lie type, where the emphasis is put on the problem of labelling the irreducible representations and of finding their degrees. All three cases are covered, representations in characteristic zero, in defining as well as in non-defining characteristics.

The first section introduces various ways of defining groups of Lie type and some classes of important subgroups of them. The next three sections are devoted to the representation theory of these groups, each section covering one of the three cases.

The lectures were addressed at a broad audience. Thus on the one hand, I have tried to introduce even the most fundamental notions, but on the other hand, I have also tried to get right to the edge of today's knowledge in the topics discussed. As a consequence, the lectures were of a somewhat inhomogeneous level of difficulty. In this article I have omitted the most introductory material. The reader may find all background material needed from representation theory in the textbook [51] by Isaacs.

For this survey I have included a few more examples, as well as most of the references to the results presented in my talks.

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Groups St Andrews 2009 in Bath , pp. 1 - 40
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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