Part Ⅰ Representations and Characters 1 Generalities on linear representations 1.1 Definitions 1.2 Basic examples 1.3 Submpmsentations 1.4 Irreducible representations 1.5 Tensor product of two representations 1.6 Symmetric square and alternating square 2 Character theory 2.1 The character of a representation 2.2 Schurs lemma; basic applications 2.3 0rthogonality relations for characters 2.4 Decomposition of the regular representation 2.5 Number of irreducible representations 2.6 Canonical decomposition of a representation 2.7 Explicit decomposition of a representation 3 Subgroups, products, induced representations 3.1 Abelian subgroups 3.2 Product of two groups 3.3 Induced representations 4 Compact groups 4.1 Compact groups 4.2 lnvariant measure on a compact group 4.3 Linear representations of compact groups 5 Examples 5.1 The cyclic Group 5.2 The group 5.3 The dihedral group 5.4 The group 5.5 The group 5.6 The group 5.7 The alternating group 5.8 The symmetric group 5.9 The group of the cube Bibliography: Part?、?br />Part Ⅱ Representations in Characteristic Zero 6 The group algebra 6.1 Representations and modules 6.2 Decomposition of C[G] 6.3 The center of C[G] 6.4 Basic properties of integers 6.5 lntegrality properties of characters. Applications 7 Induced representations; Mackeys criterion 7.1 Induction 7.2 The character of an induced representation; the reciprocity formula 7.3 Restriction to subgroups 7.4 Mackeys irreducibility criterion 8 Examples of induced representations 8. l Normal subgroups; applications to the degrees of the ineducible representations 8.2 Semidirect products by an ahelian group 8.3 A review of some classes of finite groups 8.4 Syiows theorem 8.5 Linear representations of superselvable groups 9 Artins theorem 9.1 The ring R(G) 9.2 Statement of Artins theorem 9.3 First proof 9.4 Second proof of (i) = (ii) 10 A theorem of Brauer 10.1 p-regular elements;p-elementary subgroups 10.2 Induced characters arising from p-elementary subgroups 10.3 Construction of characters 10.4 Proof of theorems 18 and 18 10.5 Brauers theorem 11 Applications of Brauers theorem 11.1 Characterization of characters 11.2 A theorem of Frobenius 11.3 A converse to Brauers theorem 11.4 The spectrum of A R(G) 12 Rationality questions 12.1 The rings RK(G) and RK(G) 12.2 Schur indices 12.3 Realizability over cyclotomic fields 12.4 The rank of RK(G) 12.5 Generalization of Artins theorem 12.6 Generalization of Brauers theorem 12.7 Proof of theorem 28 13 Rationality questions: examples 13. I The field Q 13.2 The field R Bibliography: Part?、?br />Part?、?br />Introduction to Brauer Theory 14 The groups RK(G), R(G), and Pk(G) 14.1 The rings RK(G) and R,(G) 14.2 The groups Pk(G) and P^(G) 14.3 Structure of Pk(G) 14.4 Structure of PA(G) 14.5 Dualities 14.6 Scalar extensions 15 The cde triangle 15.1 Definition of c: Pk(G) ——Rk(G) 15.2 Definition of d: Rs(G) —— Rk(G) 15.3 Definition of e: Pk(G) —— RK(G) 15.4 Basic properties of the cde triangle 15.5 Example: p-gmups 15.6 Example: p-groups 15.7 Example: products ofp-groups and p-groups 16 Theorems 16.1 Properties of the cde triangle 16.2 Characterization of the image of e 16.3 Characterization of projective A [G ]-modules by their characters 16.4 Examples of projective A [G ]-modules: irreducible representations of defect zero 17 Proofs 17. I Change of groups 17.2 Brauers theorem in the modular case 17.3 Proof of theorem 33 17.4 Proof of theorem 35 17.5 Proof of theorem 37 17.6 Proof of theorem 38 18 Modular characters 18.1 The modular character of a representation 18.2 Independence of modular characters 18.3 Reformulations 18.4 A section ford 18.5 Example: Modular characters of the symmetric group 18.6 Example: Modular characters of the alternating group 19 Application to Artin representations 19.1 Artin and Swan representations 19.2 Rationality of the Artin and Swan representations 19.3 An invariant Appendix Bibliography: Part Ⅲ Index of notation Index of terminology