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Prime Power Representations Of Finite Linear Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert Steinberg*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study
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1. Introduction. There are five well-known, two-parameter families of simple finite groups: the unimodular projective group, the symplectic group,1 the unitary group,2 and the first and second orthogonal groups, each group acting on a vector space of a finite number of elements (2; 3).

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1956

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