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Supercharacter theory via the group determinant

Representation Theory 2020-03-31 v1

Abstract

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius is generally considered the creator of character theory of finite groups. This achievement came from the study of the group determinant, which is the determinant of a matrix coming from the regular representation. In this paper, we generalize several of Frobenius' results about the group determinant and use them find a new formulation of supercharacter theory in terms of factorizations of the group determinant.

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@article{arxiv.2003.12695,
  title  = {Supercharacter theory via the group determinant},
  author = {Shawn T. Burkett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12695},
  year   = {2020}
}
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