Right, thanks. It applies to any field whatsoever, but then I should write not . Fixed now.
]]>Yes, that’s the sort of thing. Do you mean “any field” for , or characteristic ? Otherwise, what do you mean for a finite field?
]]>added this basic statement (which is maybe what you (David C.) were after):
For a finite G-set, for any field and the corresponding permutation representation, the character of the permutation representation at any equals the Burnside marks of under the cyclic group generated by :
Hence the mark homomorphism (Def. \ref{BurnsideCharacter}) of -sets restricted to cyclic subgroups coincides with the characters of their permutation representations.
]]>Interesting, thanks. Will need to look into that.
]]>But incidentally, there does appear to be a relationship in some cases between the table of marks and the character table :
]]>Let be the table of marks with respect to the Young subgroups, and be the Kostka matrix, and be the character table of the symmetric group . Then .
Given the discussion we having at the time about cohomotopy as the version of K-theory (around here), I was looking for a -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)
But did you have some references that talked about this?
]]>Ok, will get rid of it.
]]>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 , 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 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 -set as a presheaf on the orbit category, as in Elmendorf’s theorem.
]]>It would be nice to say more. I wonder what there is. There must be comparisons of character tables over other fields.
]]>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.
]]>Oh, but is there more than “one might explain”?
]]>Added an remark.
]]>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)
]]>Added as a corollary that the table of marks determines the Burnside ring.
]]>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.
]]>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
]]>added that with suitable ordering of conjugacy classes of subgroups, the table of marks becomes a triangular invertible matrix (here)
]]>added pointer to
fixed the statement about marks via homs of linear reps (removed it). That was just nonsense – my bad.
]]>expanded and added a remark (here) on how the table of marks is the table of cardinalities
]]>started some minimum
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