Linear representation theory of groups of order 32
This article gives specific information, namely, linear representation theory, about a family of groups, namely: groups of order 32.
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Degrees of irreducible representations
FACTS TO CHECK AGAINST FOR DEGREES OF IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS OVER SPLITTING FIELD:
Divisibility facts: degree of irreducible representation divides group order | degree of irreducible representation divides index of abelian normal subgroup
Size bounds: order of inner automorphism group bounds square of degree of irreducible representation| degree of irreducible representation is bounded by index of abelian subgroup| maximum degree of irreducible representation of group is less than or equal to product of maximum degree of irreducible representation of subgroup and index of subgroup
Cumulative facts: sum of squares of degrees of irreducible representations equals order of group | number of irreducible representations equals number of conjugacy classes | number of one-dimensional representations equals order of abelianization
Full listing
Here are the degrees of irreducible representations for all groups of order 32:
[SHOW MORE]Grouping by Hall-Senior families
Note that isoclinic groups have same proportions of degrees of irreducible representations, and in particular isoclinic groups of the same order have precisely the same degrees of irreducible representations. Thus, all groups in the same Hall-Senior family have the same degrees of irreducible representations. However, the same multiset of degrees of irreducible representations could be attained by more than one Hall-Senior family, as we see in the table below.
For the first three Hall-Senior families , there are isoclinic groups of smaller order, hence the degrees of irreducible representations can be computed by first computing the degrees of irreducible representations of those isoclinic groups of smaller order and then scaling up the proportions based on the order. For instance, dihedral group:D8 of order 8 and family
has 4 irreps of degree 1 and 1 of degree 2, so the groups in family
and of order 32 have
irreps of degree 1 and
irreps of degree 2.
For more background on the Hall-Senior families business, see Groups of order 32#Families and classification.
Family name | Isomorphism class of inner automorphism group | Isomorphism class of derived subgroup | Number of members | Nilpotency class | Members | Second part of GAP ID of members (sorted ascending) | Hall-Senior numbers of members (sorted ascending) | Number of irreps of degree 1 (= order of abelianization) | Number of irreps of degree 2 | Number of irreps of degree 4 | Total number of irreps | Smallest order of group isoclinic to it | Degrees of irreps of smallest order isoclinic stem group |
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trivial group | trivial group | 7 | 1 | all abelian groups of order 32: [SHOW MORE] | [SHOW MORE] | 1-7 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 1 |
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Klein four-group | cyclic group:Z2 | 15 | 2 | [SHOW MORE] | [SHOW MORE] | 8-22 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 1 (4 times), 2 (1 time) |
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dihedral group:D8 | cyclic group:Z4 | 10 | 3 | [SHOW MORE] | [SHOW MORE] | 23-32 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 16 | 1 (4 times), 2 (3 times) |
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elementary abelian group:E8 | Klein four-group | 9 | 2 | [SHOW MORE] | 27-35 | 33-41 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 32 | 1 (8 times), 2 (6 times) |
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elementary abelian group:E16 | cyclic group:Z2 | 2 | 2 | extraspecial groups: [SHOW MORE] | 49, 50 | 42, 43 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 32 | 1 (16 times), 4 (1 time) |
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direct product of D8 and Z2 | cyclic group:Z4 | 2 | 3 | [SHOW MORE] | 43,44 | 44,45 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 32 | 1 (8 times), 2 (2 times), 4 (1 time) |
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SmallGroup(16,3) | Klein four-group | 3 | 3 | faithful semidirect product of E8 and Z4, SmallGroup(32,7), SmallGroup(32,8) | 6-8 | 46-48 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 32 | 1 (8 times), 2 (2 times), 4 (1 time) |
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dihedral group:D16 | cyclic group:Z8 | 3 | 4 | maximal class groups: [SHOW MORE] | 18-20 | 49-51 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 32 | 1 (4 times), 2 (7 times) |
Grouping by degrees of irreducible representations
Note that since number of conjugacy classes in group of prime power order is congruent to order of group modulo prime-square minus one, all the values for the total number of irreducible representations, which equals the number of conjugacy classes, is congruent to 32 mod 3, and hence congruent to 2 mod 3.
As noted above, isoclinic groups have same proportions of degrees of irreducible representations, and in particular isoclinic groups of the same order have precisely the same degrees of irreducible representations. Thus, all groups in the same Hall-Senior family have the same degrees of irreducible representations. However, the same multiset of degrees of irreducible representations could be attained by more than one Hall-Senior family, as we see in the table below.
For more background on the Hall-Senior families business, see Groups of order 32#Families and classification.
For more on the subgroup structure stuff (the two right-most columns) see subgroup structure of groups of order 32#Abelian subgroups.
Number of irreps of degree 1 (= order of abelianization) | Number of irreps of degree 2 | Number of irreps of degree 4 | Total number of irreps (= number of conjugacy classes) | Total number of groups | Nilpotency class(es) attained by these | List of groups | List of GAP IDs (ascending order) | List of Hall-Senior numbers (ascending order) | List of Hall-Senior families (equivalence classes under isoclinism) | Order of inner automorphism group (bounds square of degree of irreducible representation) | Minimum possible index of abelian normal subgroup (degree of irreducible representation divides index of abelian normal subgroup) |
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32 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 7 | 1 | [SHOW MORE] | [SHOW MORE] | 1--7 | ![]() |
1 | 1 |
16 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 15 | 2 | PLACEHOLDER FOR INFORMATION TO BE FILLED IN: [SHOW MORE] | [SHOW MORE] | 8--22 | ![]() |
4 | 2 |
8 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 19 | 2,3 | PLACEHOLDER FOR INFORMATION TO BE FILLED IN: [SHOW MORE] | [SHOW MORE] | 23--41 | ![]() ![]() |
8 | 2 |
16 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 2 | [SHOW MORE] | 49, 50 | 42, 43 | ![]() |
16 | 4 |
8 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | PLACEHOLDER FOR INFORMATION TO BE FILLED IN: [SHOW MORE] | 6, 7, 8, 43, 44 | 44--48 | ![]() ![]() |
16 | 4 |
4 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | [SHOW MORE] | 18, 19, 20 | 49--51 | ![]() |
16 | 2 |
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[SHOW MORE]Correspondence between degrees of irreducible representations and conjugacy class sizes
See also element structure of groups of order 32#Conjugacy class sizes.
For groups of order 32, it is true that the list of conjugacy class sizes completely determines the list of degrees of irreducible representations, and vice versa. The details are given below. The middle column, which is the total number of each, separates the description of the list of conjugacy class sizes and the list of degrees of irreducible representations:
Number of conjugacy classes of size 1 | Number of conjugacy classes of size 2 | Number of conjugacy classes of size 4 | Number of conjugacy classes of size 8 | Total number of conjugacy classes = number of irreducible representations | Number of irreps of degree 1 | Number of irreps of degree 2 | Number of irreps of degree 4 |
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32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 0 |
8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 0 |
2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 1 |
4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
Note that the phenomenon of the conjugacy class size statistics and degrees of irreducible representations determining one another is not true for all orders: