Linear characters of finite linear groups

DOI10.1006/JABR.1997.7348MaRDI QIDQ1291079zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicholas F. J. Inglis

Publication date 13 January 2000

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1997.7348

zbMATH Keywords

actionsdeterminantsgeneral linear groupslinear charactersspinor norms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

Let \(V\) be a vector space of dimension \(n\) over the field \(\mathbb{F}_q\) of order \(q\), let \(G\) be a subgroup of \(\text{GL}(V)\), and let \(Y\) be a \(G\)-invariant subset of the set \({\mathcal P}(V)\) of \(1\)-spaces of \(V\). The author defines an \(\mathbb{F}_q^*\)-valued linear character \(\delta_Y\) related to the permutation action of \(G\) on \(Y\) and to the associated action of \(G\) on vectors. He shows that special cases of this character include both the determinant when \(G\) is the general linear group and the spinor norm when \(q\) is odd and \(G\) is an orthogonal group. This formulation is particularly useful when one is considering \(G\) as the Galois group of a polynomial.

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