Paper 3, Section II, I
In this question we work over .
(a) (i) Let be a subgroup of a finite group . Given an -space , define the complex vector space . Define, with justification, the -action on .
(ii) Write for the conjugacy class of . Suppose that breaks up into conjugacy classes of with representatives . If is a character of , write down, without proof, a formula for the induced character as a certain sum of character values .
(b) Define permutations by and let be the subgroup of . It is given that the elements of are all of the form for and that has order 21 .
(i) Find the orders of the centralisers and . Hence show that there are five conjugacy classes of .
(ii) Find all characters of degree 1 of by lifting from a suitable quotient group.
(iii) Let . By first inducing linear characters of using the formula stated in part (a)(ii), find the remaining irreducible characters of .