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Multiplicities in the Tensor Product of Finite-Dimensional Representations of Discrete Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Dragomir Ž. Djoković*
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Let G be a group and ρ and σ two irreducible unitary representations of G in complex Hilbert spaces and assume that dimp ρ= n < ∞. D. Poguntke [2] proved that is a sum of at most n2 irreducible subrepresentations. The case when dim a is also finite he attributed to R. Howe.

We shall prove analogous results for arbitrary finite-dimensional representations, not necessarily unitary. Thus let F be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. We shall use the language of modules and we postulate that allour modules are finite-dimensional as F-vector spaces. The field F itself will be considered as a trivial G-module.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

References

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2. Poguntke, D.: Decomposition of tensor products of irreducible unitary representations, Proc. Amer. Math-Soc. 52 (1975), 427-432.Google Scholar