Induced representations and Mackey theory. (Q2655971)

The authors give an exposition to the theory of induced representations. The notion of induced representation goes back to G. Frobenius and is a powerful tool of constructing representations of groups from those of a subgroup. The authors discuss topics such as induced representations, Frobenius reciprocity law and Mackey's theory. Finally in the last section of the paper, the authors apply Mackey's formula to describe a complete list of all the irreducible representations of the symmetric group on \(n\) letters.