Tag Archives: Mathieu Group

Mathieu Magic

I previously mentioned that I once made (in a footnote) the false claim that for a 11-dimensional representation V of the Mathieu group M_12, the 120 dimensional representation Ad^0(V) was irreducible. I had wanted to write down representations W of … Continue reading

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Tensor Products

Let \(W\) be an irreducible representation of a finite group \(G.\) Say that \(W\) is tensor indecomposable if any isomorphism \(W = U \otimes V\) implies that either \(U\) or \(V\) is a character. In conversations with Matt and Toby … Continue reading

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