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On the group determinant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

K. W. Johnson
K. W. Johnson
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The Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Campus, 1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA 19001, U.S.A.
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The original motivation for the introduction by Frobenius of group characters for non-abelian groups was the problem of the factorization of the group determinant corresponding to a finite group G. The original papers are [5] and [6] and a good historical survey of the work is given in [7] and [8]. If G is of order n, the group matrix XG is defined to be the n×n matrix {xg, h} where xg, h = xgh∈G. Here the xg, g∈G, represent variables. The group determinant ΘG is defined to be det(XG), and is thus a polynomial of degree n in the xg. This determinant is the same, up to sign, as that of the matrix obtained from the unbordered multiplication table of G by replacing each element g by xg. If there is no ambiguity ΘG will be written as Θ.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 109 , Issue 2 , March 1991 , pp. 299 - 311
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1991

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