Paper 2, Section II, H

Representation Theory
Part II, 2012

Suppose that GG is a finite group. Define the inner product of two complex-valued class functions on GG. Prove that the characters of the irreducible representations of GG form an orthonormal basis for the space of complex-valued class functions.

Suppose that pp is a prime and Fp\mathbb{F}_{p} is the field of pp elements. Let G=GL2(Fp)G=\mathrm{GL}_{2}\left(\mathbb{F}_{p}\right). List the conjugacy classes of GG.

Let GG act naturally on the set of lines in the space Fp2\mathbb{F}_{p}^{2}. Compute the corresponding permutation character and show that it is reducible. Decompose this character as a sum of two irreducible characters.