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, a linear representation (

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) of a group is a monomial representation if there is a finite-index

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and a one-dimensional linear representation of , such that is equivalent to the induced representation . Alternatively, one may define it as a representation whose

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is in the

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. Here for example and may be finite groups, so that ''induced representation'' has a classical sense. The monomial representation is only a little more complicated than the permutation representation of on the

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s of . It is necessary only to keep track of scalars coming from applied to elements of .

Definition

To define the monomial representation, we first need to introduce the notion of monomial space. A monomial space is a triple

(V,X,(V_x)_)

where

V

is a finite-dimensional complex vector space,

X

is a finite set and

(V_x)_

is a family of one-dimensional subspaces of

V

such that

V=\oplus_V_x

. Now Let

G

be a group, the monomial representation of

G

V

is a group homomorphism

\rho:G\to \mathrm(V)

such that for every element

g\in G

\rho(g)

permutes the

V_x

's, this means that

\rho

induces an action by permutation of

G

X

References

* * Representation theory of groups {{Algebra-stub