In mathematics, and in particular group representation theory, the induced representation is one of the major general operations for passing from a representation of a subgroup H to a representation of the (whole) group G itself. It was initially defined as a construction by Frobenius, for linear representations of finite groups. It includes as special cases the action of G on the cosets G/H by permutation, which is the case of the induced representation starting with the trivial one-dimensional representation of H. If H = {e} this becomes the regular representation of G. Therefore induced representations are rich objects, in the sense that they include or detect many interesting representations. The idea is by no means limited to the case of finite groups, but the theory in that case is particularly well-behaved.
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