Supercharacter theories for dihedral group:D8
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This article gives specific information, namely, supercharacter theories, about a particular group, namely: dihedral group:D8.
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This page lists the various possible supercharacter theories for dihedral group:D8, i.e., the dihedral group with eight elements (this is the dihedral group of degree four and order eight). It builds on a thorough understanding of element structure of dihedral group:D8, subgroup structure of dihedral group:D8, and linear representation theory of dihedral group:D8.
We take to have the following presentation, with identity element
:
Thus, is the generator of a cyclic maximal subgroup and
is an element of order two outside that subgroup.
Character table
Below, the character table for is given.
This character table works over characteristic zero:
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Trivial representation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | -1 |
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1 | 1 | -1 | 1 | -1 |
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1 | 1 | -1 | -1 | 1 |
2-dimensional | 2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The same character table works over any characteristic not equal to 2 where the elements 1,-1,0,2,-2 are interpreted over the field.
Supercharacter theories
Summary
Quick description of supercharacter theory | Number of such supercharacter theories under automorphism group action | Number of blocks of conjugacy classes = number of blocks of irreducible representations | Block sizes for conjugacy classses (in number of conjugacy class terms) (should add up to 5, the total number of conjugacy classes) | Block sizes for conjugacy classes (in number of elements terms) (should add up to 8, the order of the group) | Block sizes for irreducible representations (in number of representations terms) (should add up to 5, the total number of conjugacy classes) | Block sizes for irreducible representations (in sum of squares of degrees terms) (should add up to 8, the order of the group) |
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ordinary character theory | 1 | 5 | 1,1,1,1,1 | 1,1,2,2,2 | 1,1,1,1,1 | 1,1,1,1,4 |
all non-identity elements form one block | 1 | 2 | 1,4 | 1,7 | 1,4 | 1,7 |
supercharacter theory corresponding to normal series with middle group center of dihedral group:D8 | 1 | 3 | 1,1,3 | 1,1,6 | 1,3,1 | 1,3,4 |
supercharacter theory corresponding to normal series with middle group cyclic maximal subgroup of dihedral group:D8 | 1 | 3 | 1,2,2 | 1,3,4 | 1,1,3 | 1,1,6 |
supercharacter theory corresponding to normal series with middle group one of the Klein four-subgroups of dihedral group:D8 | 2 | 3 | 1,2,2 | 1,3,4 | 1,1,3 | 1,1,6 |
superchararacter theory corresponding to normal series that goes through center of dihedral group:D8 and cyclic maximal subgroup of dihedral group:D8 (note: this is also the supercharacter theory corresponding to the action of the whole automorphism group) | 1 | 4 | 1,1,1,2 | 1,1,2,4 | 1,1,2,1 | 1,1,2,4 |
superchararacter theory corresponding to normal series that goes through center of dihedral group:D8 and one of the Klein four-subgroups of dihedral group:D8 | 2 | 4 | 1,1,1,2 | 1,1,2,4 | 1,1,2,1 | 1,1,2,4 |
Total (7 rows) | 9 (number of supercharacter theories) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Sources of supercharacter theories
Automorphism group subgroup actions
Further information: endomorphism structure of dihedral group:D8
The outer automorphism group of dihedral group:D8 is cyclic group:Z2, with the non-identity element acting by interchanging the two conjugacy classes of elements of order two outside the cyclic maximal subgroup.
Subgroup of outer automorphism group | Corresponding supercharacter theory |
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trivial subgroup | ordinary character theory |
whole group | superchararacter theory corresponding to normal series that goes through center of dihedral group:D8 and cyclic maximal subgroup of dihedral group:D8 |
Galois group actions, or supercharacter theories based on character theories over subfields of the splitting field
The minimal splitting field in characteristic zero is , so the only supercharacter theory we can get is the ordinary character theory.
Normal series
Further information: supercharacter theory corresponding to a normal series
The summary table in the summary section lists all the supercharacter theories arising from nontrivial normal series. Note that the supercharacter theory where all non-identity elements form one block corresponds to the trivial normal series that includes only the trivial subgroup and the whole group.
Adjoint group structures
Further information: algebra group structures for dihedral group:D8, adjoint group structures for dihedral group:D8, supercharacter theory of the adjoint group of a radical ring
(the table below may be incomplete)
Adjoint group structure | Corresponding supercharacter theory in terms of explicit description of superconjugacy classes |
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algebra group structure over field:F2 corresponding to unitriangular matrices | ordinary character theory |