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RECOGNITION OF SMALL DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF GENERAL LINEAR GROUPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

KAY MAGAARD
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK (email: k.magaard@bham.ac.uk)
E. A. O’BRIEN*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (email: obrien@math.auckland.ac.nz)
ÁKOS SERESS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA (email: akos@math.ohio-state.edu)
*
For correspondence; e-mail: obrien@math.auckland.ac.nz
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Abstract

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Let G be isomorphic to a group H satisfying SL(d,q)≤H≤GL(d,q) and let W be an irreducible FqG-module of dimension at most d2. We present a Las Vegas polynomial-time algorithm which takes as input W and constructs a d-dimensional projective representation of G.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Australian Mathematical Society

Footnotes

This work was supported in part by the NSA, the Marsden Fund of New Zealand, and the NSF.

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