Representations and characters of finite groups

The point of view of these notes on the topic is to bring out the flavour that Representation Theory is an extension of the first course on Group Theory. We also emphasize the importance of the base field. These notes cover completely the theory over complex numbers which is Character Theory. A large number of worked-out examples are the main feature of these notes. The prerequisite for this note is basic group theory and linear algebra.

This book is an introduction to a fast developing branch of mathematics - the theory of representations of groups. It presents classical results of this theory concerning finite groups.

These are the notes of some lectures given by the author for a workshop held at TIFR, Mumbai in December, 2011, giving an exposition of the Deligne-Lusztig theory.

This survey article is an introduction to some of Lusztig's work on the character theory of a finite group of Lie type $G(F_q)$, where $q$ is a power of a prime~$p$. It is partly based on two series of lectures given at the Centre Bernoulli (EPFL) in July 2016 and at a summer school in Les Diablerets in August 2015. Our focus here is on questions related to the parametrization of the irreducible characters and on results which hold without any assumption on~$p$ or~$q$.

These are lecture notes that arose from a representation theory course given by the first author to the remaining six authors in March 2004 within the framework of the Clay Mathematics Institute Research Academy for high school students, and its extended version given by the first author to MIT undergraduate math students in the Fall of 2008. The notes cover a number of standard topics in representation theory of groups, Lie algebras, and quivers, and contain many problems an...

This book describes some computational methods to deal with modular characters of finite groups. It is the theoretical background of the MOC system of the same authors. This system was, and is still used, to compute the modular character tables of sporadic simple groups.

We present some variations on some of the main open problems on character degrees. We collect some of the methods that have proven to be very useful to work on these problems. These methods are also useful to solve certain problems on zeros of characters, character kernels and fields of values of characters.

The present notes are based on a course given by J-P.Serre at ENSJF in 1978/79 on the elementary properties of finite groups. They were first written down by M.Buhler and C.Goldstein (Montrouge 1979), then revised and put in LaTeX by N.Billerey, O.Dodane and E.Rey.

These are notes of a graduate course on representations of non-compact semisimple Lie groups given by the author at MIT.

We give a survey of recent developments in the investigation of the various local-global conjectures for representations of finite groups.