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Finitarily linear wreath products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

B. A. F. Wehrfritz
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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Abstract

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We consider faithful finitary linear representations of (generalized) wreath products A wrΩH of groups A by H over (potentially) infinite-dimensional vector spaces, having previously considered completely reducible such representations in an earlier paper. The simpler the structure of A the more complex, it seems, these representations can become. If A has no non-trivial abelian normal subgroups, the conditions we present are both necessary and sufficient. They imply, for example, that for such an A, if there exists such a representation of the standard wreath product A wr H of infinite dimension, then there already exists one of finite dimension.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2000

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