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1. This document contains a 10 question exam on group representations and related topics. Questions cover defining representations and their properties, character tables, representation rings, dimensions of representations, Lie algebras, and representations of specific groups including S3, D4, S4, S5, SU(2), SO(3), SL(2,R). 2. Students are asked to attempt 7 of the 10 questions, which cover topics like defining representations, determining simple and semisimple representations, character theory, representation rings, properties relating dimensions of representations to group order, representations of compact and linear groups, and Lie algebras. 3. Unless otherwise stated, all groups are assumed to be compact or finite and all representations are assumed

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1. This document contains a 10 question exam on group representations and related topics. Questions cover defining representations and their properties, character tables, representation rings, dimensions of representations, Lie algebras, and representations of specific groups including S3, D4, S4, S5, SU(2), SO(3), SL(2,R). 2. Students are asked to attempt 7 of the 10 questions, which cover topics like defining representations, determining simple and semisimple representations, character theory, representation rings, properties relating dimensions of representations to group order, representations of compact and linear groups, and Lie algebras. 3. Unless otherwise stated, all groups are assumed to be compact or finite and all representations are assumed

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Course 424

Group Representations
Dr Timothy Murphy
GMB ??

Friday, ?? 2005

??:00??:00

Attempt 7 questions. (If you attempt more, only the best 7 will
be counted.) All questions carry the same number of marks.
Unless otherwise stated, all groups are compact (or finite),, and
all representations are of finite degree over C.
1. Define a group representation. What is meant by saying that 2 representations , are equivalent? Find all representations of S3 of degree
2 (up to equivalence).
What is meant by saying that a representation is simple? Find all
simple representations of D4 from first principles.
2. What is meant by saying that a representation is semisimple?
Define a measure on a compact space. State carefully, and outline
the main steps in the proof of, Haars Theorem on the existence of an
invariant measure on a compact group.
Prove that every representation of a compact group is semisimple.
3. Define the character of a representation , and show that it is a
class function (ie it is constant on conjugacy classes).

Define the intertwining number I(, ) of 2 representations , of a


group G, and show that if G is compact then
Z
I(, ) =
(g) (g) dg.
G

Prove that a representation is simple if and only if I(, ) = 1.


4. Draw up the character table for S4 .
Determine also the representation-ring for this group, ie express the
product of each pair of simple representation as a sum of simple
representations.
5. Show that the number of simple representations of a finite group G is
equal to the number s of conjugacy classes in G.
Show also that if these representations are 1 , . . . , s then
dim2 1 + + dim2 s = |G|.
Determine the dimensions of the simple representations of S5 , stating
clearly any results you assume.
6. Determine the conjugacy classes in SU(2); and prove that this group
has just one simple representation of each dimension.
Find the character of the representation D(j) of dimensions 2j + 1
(where j = 0, 12 , 1, 23 , . . . ).
Express each product D(i)D(j) as a sum of simple representations
D(k).
7. Define the exponential eX of a square matrix X.
Determine eX in each of the following cases:





1 0
0 1
0
X=
, X=
, X=
0 -1
1 0
1

-1
0


,

X=

1
1

Show that if X has eigenvalues , then eX has eigenvalues e , e .


Which of the above 5 matrices X are themselves expressible in the form
X = eY for some real matrix Y ? (Justify your answers in all cases.)

-1
1


.

8. Define a linear group, and a Lie algebra; and define the Lie algebra L G
of a linear group G, showing that it is indeed a Lie algebra.
Define the dimension of a linear group; and determine the dimensions
of each of the following groups:
O(n), SO(n), U(n), SU(n), GL(n, R), SL(n, R), GL(n, C), SL(n, C)?
9. Determine the Lie algebras of SU(2) and SO(3), and show that they
are isomomorphic.
Show that the 2 groups themselves are not isomorphic.
10. Define a representation of a Lie algebra L . What is meant by saying
that such a representation is (a) simple, (b) semisimple?
Determine the Lie algebra of SL(2, R), and find all the simple representations of this algebra.
Show that every representation of the group SL(2, R) is semisimple,
stating carefully but without proof any results you need.

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