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Representation Theory
Part II, 2020

State Mackey's restriction formula and Frobenius reciprocity for characters. Deduce Mackey's irreducibility criterion for an induced representation.

For n2n \geqslant 2 show that if Sn1S_{n-1} is the subgroup of SnS_{n} consisting of the elements that fix nn, and WW is a complex representation of Sn1S_{n-1}, then IndSn1SnW\operatorname{Ind}_{S_{n-1}}^{S_{n}} W is not irreducible.