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On the Chern classes of the regular representations of some finite groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Benjamin M. Mann  and
R. James Milgram
Benjamin M. Mann
Affiliation:
Bowdoin College, Stanford University
R. James Milgram
Affiliation:
Bowdoin College, Stanford University
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In studying the cohomology of the symmetric groups and its applications in topology one is led to certain questions concerning the representation rings of special subgroups of . In this note we calculate the Chern classes of the regular representation of (Z/p)n where p is a fixed odd prime in terms of certain modular invariants first described by L. E. Dickson in 1911. In a later paper [9] we apply these results to study the odd primary torsion in the PL cobordism ring. Some indications of this application are given in Sections 10–12 where we apply the result above to obtain information about the cohomology of . After circulation of this note in preprint form we learned that H. Mui [10], has also proved Theorem 6.2.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , October 1982 , pp. 259 - 268
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1982

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