Monomial representation

In the mathematical fields of representation theory and group theory, a linear representation $\rho$ (rho) of a group $G$ is a monomial representation if there is a finite-index subgroup $H$ and a one-dimensional linear representation $\sigma$ of $H$, such that $\rho$ is equivalent to the induced representation $\mathrm {Ind} _{H}^{G_{\sigma }}$.

Alternatively, one may define it as a representation whose image is in the monomial matrices.

Here for example $G$ and $H$ may be finite groups, so that induced representation has a classical sense. The monomial representation is only a little more complicated than the permutation representation of $G$ on the cosets of $H$. It is necessary only to keep track of scalars coming from $\sigma$ applied to elements of $H$.

Definition

To define the monomial representation, we first need to introduce the notion of monomial space. A monomial space is a triple $(V,X,(V_{x})_{x\in X})$where $V$is a finite-dimensional complex vector space, $X$ is a finite set and $(V_{x})_{x\in X}$ is a family of one-dimensional subspaces of $V$ such that $V=\oplus _{x\in X}V_{x}$.

Now Let $G$ be a group, the monomial representation of $G$ on $V$ is a group homomorphism $\rho :G\to \mathrm {GL} (V)$such that for every element $g\in G$, $\rho (g)$ permutes the $V_{x}$'s, this means that $\rho$ induces an action by permutation of $G$ on $X$.

References

• "Monomial representation", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]
• Karpilovsky, Gregory (1985). Projective Representations of Finite Groups. M. Dekker. ISBN 978-0-8247-7313-7.