In
mathematics, in the area of
algebra
Algebra () is one of the areas of mathematics, broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathem ...
studying the
character theory of
finite groups, an M-group or monomial group is a finite
group whose complex irreducible
characters are all
monomial
In mathematics, a monomial is, roughly speaking, a polynomial which has only one term. Two definitions of a monomial may be encountered:
# A monomial, also called power product, is a product of powers of variables with nonnegative integer expon ...
, that is,
induced
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* Induced consumption
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* Induced character
* Induced coma
* Induced menopause
* Induced metric
* Induced path
* Induced topology
* Induce (musician), American musician
See also
* Inducement (disambiguation ...
from characters of degree 1 .
In this section only finite groups are considered. A monomial group is
solvable by , presented in textbook in and . Every
supersolvable group
In mathematics, a group is supersolvable (or supersoluble) if it has an invariant normal series where all the factors are cyclic groups. Supersolvability is stronger than the notion of solvability.
Definition
Let ''G'' be a group. ''G'' is ...
and every solvable
A-group
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Overview
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is a monomial group. Factor groups of monomial groups are monomial, but subgroups need not be, since every finite solvable group can be embedded in a monomial group, as shown by and in textbook form in .
The
symmetric group
In abstract algebra, the symmetric group defined over any set is the group whose elements are all the bijections from the set to itself, and whose group operation is the composition of functions. In particular, the finite symmetric group ...
is an example of a monomial group that is neither supersolvable nor an
A-group
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Overview
In 1907, the Egyptologist George A. Reisner first discovered artifacts belongi ...
. The
special linear group
In mathematics, the special linear group of degree ''n'' over a field ''F'' is the set of matrices with determinant 1, with the group operations of ordinary matrix multiplication and matrix inversion. This is the normal subgroup of the gen ...
is the smallest finite group that is not monomial: since the abelianization of this group has order three, its irreducible characters of degree two are not monomial.
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Finite groups
Properties of groups
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