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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 2 19F Solution by
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If a group representation of has character , its restriction of a representation to has character . For an -representation with character , the induced representation is , with acting on the first factor. Decomposing into coset copies of shows that its character isIndeed only cosets fixed by contribute to the trace, and each coset has representatives.
The Frobenius reciprocity says . Directly, with the usual character inner product,The first equality substitutes in the finite sum, and the second uses conjugacy invariance. This proves the theorem.
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