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Supercharacter Theories and Semidirect Products

Representation Theory 2014-05-09 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We describe the supercharacter theories of the semidirect product of H and K, HKH\rtimes K in terms of the supercharacter theories of the direct product of H and K in the case when both H and K are Abelian groups. To do this we introduce the concept of a homomorphism of supercharacter theories. This provides a classification of the supercharacter theories of the dihedral groups of order 2m when m is odd using the known classification of the supercharacter theories of cyclic groups.

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@article{arxiv.1405.1764,
  title  = {Supercharacter Theories and Semidirect Products},
  author = {Alexander Lang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1764},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages

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