Group characters, permutation actions and sharpness

DOI10.1016/S0195-6698(02)00146-4MaRDI QIDQ1867282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eirini Poimenidou, Kenneth Johnson

Publication date 2 April 2003

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0195-6698(02)00146-4

zbMATH Keywords

Burnside ringsgroup charactersmarksnumbers of fixed pointspermutation charactersregular representationssharp characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Frobenius induction, Burnside and representation rings (19A22) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Modular representations and characters (20C20)

Review text

If \(L\) is a set of complex numbers, let \(f_L(x)\) be the monic polynomial whose roots are \(L\) (with multiplicity \(1\)). Cameron and Kiyota observed that one could generalize an old result of Blichfeldt and showed that if \(\chi\) is a generalized character of a finite group \(G\) and \(L=\{\chi(g)\mid 1\neq g\in G\}\), then \(f_L(\chi)=m\rho\) where \(\rho\) is the regular representation. \(\chi\) is called sharp if \(m=1\). The authors investigate these concepts and relate them to the Burnside ring. Recall that the mark of a subgroup acting on a \(G\)-set is the number of fixed points of that subgroup. In Theorem 4.1, they show that certain sets of marks do come from actual \(G\)-sets. They also give a different proof of the known result that if a faithful \(G\)-set \(X\) has \(r\) distinct marks, then \(X\) has a base of size \(r\) (i.e. a subset of size \(r\) such that no element of \(G\) fixes every element of the subset). The authors give some interesting open questions.

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