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First Steps introduces the concepts of “group,” “group actions,” and “group representations” concurrently.
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If \(\mathbb {F}\) is the field of scalars for V , then \( \operatorname {\mathrm {Hom}}_{\mathbb {F} }(V,\mathbb {F} )\) is also common notation for the dual space.
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The symbol δ ij, a function of the two variables i and j, is called the Kronecker delta.
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Howe, R.M. (2022). First Steps. In: An Invitation to Representation Theory. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98025-2_1
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