Paper 2, Section II, H
Part II, 2012
Suppose that is a finite group. Define the inner product of two complex-valued class functions on . Prove that the characters of the irreducible representations of form an orthonormal basis for the space of complex-valued class functions.
Suppose that is a prime and is the field of elements. Let . List the conjugacy classes of .
Let act naturally on the set of lines in the space . Compute the corresponding permutation character and show that it is reducible. Decompose this character as a sum of two irreducible characters.