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Categorifying induction formulae via divergent series

Group Theory 2019-03-18 v4 Representation Theory

Abstract

We show how to get explicit induction formulae for finite group representations, and more generally for rational Green functors, by summing a divergent series over Dwyer's subgroup and centralizer decomposition spaces. This results in formulae with rational coefficients. The former space yields a well-known induction formula, the latter yields a new one. As essentially immediate corollaries of the existing literature, we get similar formulae in group cohomology and stable splittings of classifying spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1803.02899,
  title  = {Categorifying induction formulae via divergent series},
  author = {Cihan Bahran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02899},
  year   = {2019}
}

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30 pages, to appear in Journal of Algebra

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