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ON THE DIMENSION OF PERMUTATION VECTOR SPACES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 April 2019
Abstract
Let $K$ be a field that admits a cyclic Galois extension of degree $n\geq 2$. The symmetric group $S_{n}$ acts on $K^{n}$ by permutation of coordinates. Given a subgroup $G$ of $S_{n}$ and $u\in K^{n}$, let $V_{G}(u)$ be the $K$-vector space spanned by the orbit of $u$ under the action of $G$. In this paper we show that, for a special family of groups $G$ of affine type, the dimension of $V_{G}(u)$ can be computed via the greatest common divisor of certain polynomials in $K[x]$. We present some applications of our results to the cases $K=\mathbb{Q}$ and $K$ finite.
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- Information
- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , October 2019 , pp. 256 - 267
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- © 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.
Footnotes
The author was supported by FAPESP Brazil, grant no. 2018/03038-2.