Paper 2, Section II, F

Representation Theory
Part II, 2010

Define the concepts of induction and restriction of characters. State and prove the Frobenius Reciprocity Theorem.

Let HH be a subgroup of GG and let gGg \in G. We write C(g)\mathcal{C}(g) for the conjugacy class of gg in GG, and write CG(g)C_{G}(g) for the centraliser of gg in GG. Suppose that HC(g)H \cap \mathcal{C}(g) breaks up into mm conjugacy classes of HH, with representatives x1,x2,,xmx_{1}, x_{2}, \ldots, x_{m}.

Let ψ\psi be a character of HH. Writing IndHG(ψ)\operatorname{Ind}_{H}^{G}(\psi) for the induced character, prove that

(i) if no element of C(g)\mathcal{C}(g) lies in HH, then IndHG(ψ)(g)=0\operatorname{Ind}_{H}^{G}(\psi)(g)=0,

(ii) if some element of C(g)\mathcal{C}(g) lies in HH, then

IndHG(ψ)(g)=CG(g)i=1mψ(xi)CH(xi).\operatorname{Ind}_{H}^{G}(\psi)(g)=\left|C_{G}(g)\right| \sum_{i=1}^{m} \frac{\psi\left(x_{i}\right)}{\left|C_{H}\left(x_{i}\right)\right|} .

Let G=S4G=S_{4} and let H=a,bH=\langle a, b\rangle, where a=(1234)a=\left(\begin{array}{llll}1 & 2 & 3 & 4\end{array}\right) and b=(1b=\left(\begin{array}{l}1\end{array}\right. dihedral group and write down its character table. Restrict each GG-conjugacy class to HH and calculate the HH-conjugacy classes contained in each restriction. Given a character ψ\psi of HH, express Ind HG(ψ)(g){ }_{H}^{G}(\psi)(g) in terms of ψ\psi, where gg runs through a set of conjugacy classes of GG. Use your calculation to find the values of all the irreducible characters of HH induced to GG.

a=(12356)(789101112),b=(17410)(21259)(368),\begin{aligned} & a=\left(\begin{array}{lllll}1 & 2 & 3 & 5 & 6\end{array}\right)(789101112), \\ & b=\left(\begin{array}{llll}1 & 7 & 4 & 10\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}{llll}2 & 12 & 5 & 9\end{array}\right)(368), \end{aligned}