Irreducible projective characters of wreath products

Hu, Xiaoli; Jing, Naihuan

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12343-4

Irreducible projective characters of wreath products
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by Xiaoli Hu and Naihuan Jing

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143 (2015), 1015-1026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12343-4

Published electronically: November 3, 2014

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Abstract:

The irreducible character values of the spin wreath products $\widetilde {\Gamma }_n=\Gamma \wr \widetilde {S}_n$ of the symmetric group and a finite group $\Gamma$ are completely determined for arbitrary $\Gamma$.

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