Total characters and Chebyshev polynomials.

DOI10.1155/S0161171203201046MaRDI QIDQ1415098zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Eirini Poimenidou, Homer Wolfe

Publication date 3 December 2003

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/50672

zbMATH Keywords

Chebyshev polynomialsfinite dihedral groupsGelfand modelsirreducible characterstotal characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Connections of hypergeometric functions with groups and algebras, and related topics (33C80)

Review text

Summary: The total character \(\tau\) of a finite group \(G\) is defined as the sum of all the irreducible characters of \(G\). K. W. Johnson asked when it is possible to express \(\tau\) as a polynomial with integer coefficients in a single irreducible character. In this paper, we give a complete answer to Johnson's question for all finite dihedral groups. In particular, we show that, when such a polynomial exists, it is unique and it is the sum of certain Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind in any faithful irreducible character of the dihedral group \(G\).

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