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Primitive irreducible representations of nilpotent groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. L. Harper
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Cambridge

Extract

Here we answer a question raised by Zaleskii (5) and reiterated by Segal (3) of whether a finitely generated nilpotent group can have primitive irreducible representations.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1977

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