Paper 1, Section II, F
Part II, 2020
State and prove Maschke's theorem.
Let be the group of isometries of . Recall that is generated by the elements where and for .
Show that every non-faithful finite-dimensional complex representation of is a direct sum of subrepresentations of dimension at most two.
Write down a finite-dimensional complex representation of the group that is not a direct sum of one-dimensional subrepresentations. Hence, or otherwise, find a finitedimensional complex representation of that is not a direct sum of subrepresentations of dimension at most two. Briefly justify your answer.
[Hint: You may assume that any non-trivial normal subgroup of contains an element of the form for some .]