Not signed in (Sign In)

Not signed in

Want to take part in these discussions? Sign in if you have an account, or apply for one below

  • Sign in using OpenID

Site Tag Cloud

2-category 2-category-theory abelian-categories adjoint algebra algebraic algebraic-geometry algebraic-topology analysis analytic-geometry arithmetic arithmetic-geometry book bundles calculus categorical categories category category-theory chern-weil-theory cohesion cohesive-homotopy-type-theory cohomology colimits combinatorics complex complex-geometry computable-mathematics computer computer-science constructive cosmology deformation-theory descent diagrams differential differential-cohomology differential-equations differential-geometry digraphs duality elliptic-cohomology enriched fibration foundation foundations functional-analysis functor gauge-theory gebra geometric-quantization geometry graph graphs gravity grothendieck group group-theory harmonic-analysis higher higher-algebra higher-category-theory higher-differential-geometry higher-geometry higher-lie-theory higher-topos-theory homological homological-algebra homotopy homotopy-theory homotopy-type-theory index-theory integration integration-theory k-theory lie-theory limits linear linear-algebra locale localization logic mathematics measure-theory modal modal-logic model model-category-theory monad monads monoidal monoidal-category-theory morphism motives motivic-cohomology nlab noncommutative noncommutative-geometry number-theory of operads operator operator-algebra order-theory pages pasting philosophy physics pro-object probability probability-theory quantization quantum quantum-field quantum-field-theory quantum-mechanics quantum-physics quantum-theory question representation representation-theory riemannian-geometry scheme schemes science set set-theory sheaf simplicial space spin-geometry stable-homotopy-theory stack string string-theory superalgebra supergeometry svg symplectic-geometry synthetic-differential-geometry terminology theory topology topos topos-theory tqft type type-theory universal variational-calculus

Vanilla 1.1.10 is a product of Lussumo. More Information: Documentation, Community Support.

Welcome to nForum
If you want to take part in these discussions either sign in now (if you have an account), apply for one now (if you don't).
    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2018

    started some minimum

    v1, current

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeDec 30th 2018
    • (edited Jan 19th 2019)

    expanded and added a remark (here) on how the table of marks is the table of cardinalities

    M ij|(G/H j) H i|=|Hom GSet(G/H i,G/H j)|. M_{i j} \;\coloneqq\; \left\vert \left(G/H_j\right)^{H_i} \right\vert \;=\; \left\vert Hom_{G Set}(G/H_i, G/H_j)\right\vert \,.

    diff, v5, current

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 19th 2019

    fixed the statement about marks via homs of linear reps (removed it). That was just nonsense – my bad.

    diff, v7, current

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 19th 2019
    • (edited Jan 19th 2019)

    added pointer to

    • Klaus Lux, Herbert Pahlings, section 3.5 of Representations of groups – A computational approach, Cambridge University Press 2010 (author page, publisher page)

    diff, v8, current

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2019
    • (edited Jan 27th 2019)

    added that with suitable ordering of conjugacy classes of subgroups, the table of marks becomes a triangular invertible matrix (here)

    diff, v10, current

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2019

    added statement and proof of the expression of the Burnside ring structure constants in terms of the table of marks (here)

    Will copy this also into the entry Burnside ring

    diff, v10, current

  1. Nice! I spelled out the conclusion of the argument expressing the structure constants in terms of the table of marks more carefully/in more detail.

    diff, v14, current

  2. Added as a corollary that the table of marks determines the Burnside ring.

    diff, v14, current

    • CommentRowNumber9.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2019
    • (edited Jan 27th 2019)

    Thanks for the edits.

    Next I’ll look into writing out more of the algorithms for Chern characters of finite group representations. This should be very interesting to compute, both purely mathematically (here) as well as for physics (here)

    • CommentRowNumber10.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2019

    Added an 𝔽 1\mathbb{F}_1 remark.

    diff, v16, current

    • CommentRowNumber11.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2019

    Oh, but is there more than “one might explain”?

  3. Tweaked proof that the table of marks is lower triangular to be a little more explicit/elementary, as, for me at least, the argument is then clearer.

    diff, v17, current

    • CommentRowNumber13.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2019

    It would be nice to say more. I wonder what there is. There must be comparisons of character tables over other fields.

    • CommentRowNumber14.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2019

    Okay, but then maybe we should wait with suggesting that there is such a relation, until we know that there is.

    A priori it looks implausible to me that the the marks are literally the characters over 𝔽 1\mathbb{F}_1, as they are parameterized over different combinatorial data: Taken at face value, no change of base field changes the fact that a character is a function on conjugacy classes of group elements, hence, if you wish, on conjugacy classes of cyclic subgroups. But the marks are functions on the set of conjugacy classes of all subgroups.

    Now I don’t know if maybe some 𝔽 1\mathbb{F}_1 magic makes away with that difference, somehow. But it seems rather implausible at face value.

    On the other hand, it is manifest that the marks are a decategorification of the incarnation of a GG-set as a presheaf on the orbit category, as in Elmendorf’s theorem.

    • CommentRowNumber15.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2019

    Ok, will get rid of it.

    diff, v18, current

    • CommentRowNumber16.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2019

    But did you have some references that talked about this?

    • CommentRowNumber17.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2019
    • (edited Jan 28th 2019)

    Given the discussion we having at the time about cohomotopy as the 𝔽 1\mathbb{F}_1 version of K-theory (around here), I was looking for a 𝔽 1\mathbb{F}_1-version of the usual character table, and turned up the table of marks. I can’t remember anything more explicit than:

    Much like character theory simplifies working with group representations, marks simplify working with permutation representations and the Burnside ring. (Wikipedia)

    • CommentRowNumber18.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2019

    But incidentally, there does appear to be a relationship in some cases between the table of marks and the character table :

    Let TT be the table of marks with respect to the Young subgroups, and KK be the Kostka matrix, and CC be the character table of the symmetric group S nS_n. Then T=KCT=K C.

    • CommentRowNumber19.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2019

    Interesting, thanks. Will need to look into that.

    • CommentRowNumber20.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2019
    • (edited Jan 31st 2019)

    added this basic statement (which is maybe what you (David C.) were after):


    For SGSet finS \in G Set_{fin} a finite G-set, for kk any field and k[S]Rep k(G)k[S] \in Rep_k(G) the corresponding permutation representation, the character χ k[S]\chi_{k[S]} of the permutation representation at any gGg \in G equals the Burnside marks of SS under the cyclic group gG\langle g\rangle \subset G generated by gg:

    χ k[S](g)=|X g|k. \chi_{k[S]}\big( g \big) \;=\; \left\vert X^{\langle g\rangle} \right\vert \;\in\; \mathbb{Z} \hookrightarrow k \,.

    Hence the mark homomorphism (Def. \ref{BurnsideCharacter}) of GG-sets restricted to cyclic subgroups coincides with the characters of their permutation representations.

    diff, v19, current

    • CommentRowNumber21.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2019

    Yes, that’s the sort of thing. Do you mean “any field” for kk, or characteristic 00? Otherwise, what do you mean k\mathbb{Z} \hookrightarrow k for a finite field?

    • CommentRowNumber22.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2019

    Right, thanks. It applies to any field whatsoever, but then I should write k\mathbb{Z} \longrightarrow k not k\mathbb{Z} \hookrightarrow k. Fixed now.