representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essen ...

, a branch of mathematics, the Gelfand–Graev representation is a representation of a

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over a

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introduced by , induced from a non-degenerate

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of a

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. The Gelfand–Graev representation is reducible and decomposes as the sum of irreducible representations, each of multiplicity at most 1. The irreducible representations occurring in the Gelfand–Graev representation are called regular representations. These are the analogues for finite groups of representations with a

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References

* * English translation in volume 2 of Gelfand's collected works. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gelfand-Graev representation Representation theory