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Frobenius reciprocity on the space of functions invariant under a group action

Group Theory 2020-06-05 v1

Abstract

This article studies connections between group actions and their corresponding vector spaces. Given an action of a group GG on a nonempty set XX, we examine the space L(X)L(X) of scalar-valued functions on XX and its fixed subspace: LG(X)={fL(X) ⁣:f(ax)=f(x) for all aG,xX}. L^G(X) = \{f\in L(X)\colon f(a\cdot x) = f(x) \textrm{ for all }a\in G, x\in X\}. In particular, we show that LG(X)L^G(X) is an invariant of the action of GG on XX. In the case when the action is finite, we compute the dimension of LG(X)L^G(X) in terms of fixed points of XX and prove several prominent results for LG(X)L^G(X), including Bessel's inequality and Frobenius reciprocity.

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@article{arxiv.2006.02653,
  title  = {Frobenius reciprocity on the space of functions invariant under a group action},
  author = {Teerapong Suksumran and Tanakorn Udomworarat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.02653},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages