On rings of invariants of non-modular Abelian groups (Q4940644)

Let \(\rho : G \hookrightarrow \text{GL}(n, \mathbb F)\) be a faithful representation of a finite group \(G\) over the field \(\mathbb F\) of characteristic \(p\). The group \(G\) is said to be modular in case \(p\) divides \(|G|\) and is called non-modular otherwise. The current work analyzes the invariant theory of finite Abelian non-modular groups \(G\). For particular representations of these types of groups, the authors characterize a generating set of monomials for the ring of invariant polynomials in the original symmetric algebra, extending results by Campbell, Hughes, Pappalardi and Selick. A finite abelian non-modular group \(G\) may be viewed as a group which acts on the ring of Laurent polynomials whose ring of invariants is also a ring of Laurent polynomials. The authors extend these ideas to relative invariants associated to a character of the group (weight submodules) and also examine the invariants of the group acting on a polynomial algebra tensored with an exterior algebra. This is the third paper in a series of related papers. In the present work the authors use the fact that one may assume \(G\) acts diagonally on a vector space \(V\) over \(\mathbb F\), and so it happens that many of the techniques used here are applicable to diagonalizable infinite groups.