Nonsemisimple translation representation of the infinite cyclic group

ID: nonsemisimple-translation-representation-of-the-infinite-cyclic-group

On polynomials of degree at most one, let the generator of act by . In the basis its matrix is
This nontrivial Jordan block is not diagonalizable, so the representation is not a direct sum of one-dimensional subrepresentations.

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