Stacks of group representations.

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Abstract: We start with a small paradigm shift about group representations, namely the observation that restriction to a subgroup can be understood as an extension-of-scalars. We deduce that, given a group G, the derived and the stable categories of representations of a subgroup H can be constructed out of the corresponding category for G by a purely triangulated-categorical construction, analogous to 'etale extension in algebraic geometry. In the case of finite groups, we then use descent methods to investigate when modular representations of the subgroup H can be extended to G. We show that the presheaves of plain, derived and stable representations all form stacks on the category of finite G-sets (or the orbit category of G), with respect to a suitable Grothendieck topology that we call the sipp topology. When H contains a Sylow subgroup of G, we use sipp Cech cohomology to describe the kernel and the image of the homomorphism T(G)oT(H), where T() denotes the group of endotrivial representations.









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