On the isomorphism problem for the ring of monomial representations of a finite group
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On the isomorphism problem for the ring of monomial representations of a finite group
zbMATH Open document ID: 1237.19002
author: Michael Müller
published in: Journal of Algebra
publication date: 2011-12-08T00:00:00Z
review text: For a finite group \(G\), the monomial representation ring \(D(G)\) is defined as the Grothendieck ring of all monomial representations of \(G\); it is an analog of the Burnside ring \(B(G)\) which is the Grothendieck ring of all permutation representations of \(G\). Moreover, \(B(G)\) can be viewed as a subring of \(D(G)\). The ring \(D(G)\) was investigated by Dress, Boltje and others. The paper under review continues these investigations. Its main results are concerned with torsion units in \(D(G)\), and with conductors of idempotents in \(\mathbb{Q}(\zeta)\otimes_\mathbb{Z} D(G)\) and \(\mathbb{Z}[\zeta]_{\mathfrak{p}} \otimes_{\mathbb{Z}} D(G)\); here \(\zeta\) is a primitive \(\left|G\right|\)-th root of unity in \(\mathbb{C}\), and \(\mathfrak{p}\) is a maximal ideal in \(\mathbb{Z}[\zeta]\). The author shows, as an application, that \(D(G)\) determines the order, the solvability, the nilpotency and the commutativity of \(G\). Furthermore, \(D(G)\) detects the commutativity of the Sylow \(p\)-subgroups of \(G\), for a prime number \(p\). It also determines whether \(O_p(G) = 1\). For an abelian group, \(D(G)\) even determines the isomorphism type of \(G\). These results are analogs of similar results for the Burnside ring \(B(G)\). Reviewer's remark: It seems to be difficult to construct nonisomorphic finite groups \(G, H\) with isomorphic rings \(D(G),~D(H)\).
reviewed by: Burkhard Külshammer
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 19A22
zbMATH DE Number: 5987872
zbMATH Keywords: representation ring
zbMATH Keywords: Burnside ring
zbMATH Keywords: ghost ring
zbMATH Keywords: species
zbMATH Keywords: Green functor
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.jalgebra.2011.02.013
OpenAlex ID: W2048601450
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DOI: 10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2011.02.013
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5987872