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On irreducible representations of conjugacy quandles

Representation Theory 2026-05-06 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

For GG a finite group, one way to construct irreducible quandle representations over C\mathbb{C} of the conjugacy quandle Conj(G)Conj(G) is by taking the product of an irreducible linear group representation of GG by what we call a quandle character of Conj(G)Conj(G) (a quandle morphism into C×\mathbb{C}^\times ). We show that these are all the irreducible quandle representations of Conj(G)Conj(G) over C\mathbb{C} if and only if all the symmetric 22-cocyles over GG (α(g,h)=α(h,g)\alpha(g,h)=\alpha(h,g) for all g,hg,h) with values in C×\mathbb{C}^\times are coboundaries. For instance, this is the case of groups with trivial Bogomolov multiplier. We apply this to study the enveloping group of Conj(G)Conj(G). If GG finite satisfies the previous condition on symmetric 22-cocycles, we obtain that the enveloping group of Conj(G)Conj(G) injects into G×ZcGG\times \mathbb{Z}^{c_G} where cGc_G is the number of the conjugacy classes of GG. If moreover GG is perfect the injection is an isomorphism.

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@article{arxiv.2604.22078,
  title  = {On irreducible representations of conjugacy quandles},
  author = {Mohamad Maassarani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22078},
  year   = {2026}
}

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