Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Grupos e Representações

Code

11588

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Departamento de Matemática

Credits

6.0

Teacher in charge

António José Mesquita da Cunha Machado Malheiro

Total hours

52

Teaching language

Português

Subject matter

I. Group Theory

1. Basic notions.

2. Permutation groups.

3. Sylow Theorems.

4. Automorphism groups (including Jordan-Holder Theorem).

5. Soluble and Nilpotent groups.

[6. Finite abelian groups (optional)]

 

II. Representation Theory

1. Representations, modules and group algebras.

2. Mashke''s Theorem and Schur''s Lemma.

3. Character theory.

4. Applications (Burnside Theorems).

Bibliography

  • John F. Humphreys, A course in group theory
  • Ian D. Macdonald, The theory of groups
  • John S. Rose, A course on group theory
  • Joseph J. Rotman, An introduction to the theory of groups
  • William Fulton and Joe Harris, Representation Theory (A first course)
  • Gordon James and Martin Liebeck, Representations and Characters of Groups

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