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We have already stated supra that the term “representation” in the wide sense means a homomorphism of the group G into the group of one-to-one mappings of a certain set X onto itself1,A representation T is called linear if X is a linear space and the mappings T(g) are linear operators.
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Kirillov, A.A. (1976). Representations of Groups. In: Elements of the Theory of Representations. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 220. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66243-0_7
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