Paper 1, Section II, 19G

Representation Theory
Part II, 2013

State and prove Maschke's Theorem for complex representations of finite groups.

Without using character theory, show that every irreducible complex representation of the dihedral group of order 10,D1010, D_{10}, has dimension at most two. List the irreducible complex representations of D10D_{10} up to isomorphism.

Let VV be the set of vertices of a regular pentagon with the usual action of D10D_{10}. Explicitly decompose the permutation representation CV\mathbb{C} V into a direct sum of irreducible subrepresentations.