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Report on Freely Representable Groups

Wayne Aitken
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This report is an account of freely representable groups, which are finite groups admitting linear representations whose only fixed point for a nonidentity element is the zero vector. The standard reference for such groups is Wolf (1967) where such groups are used to classify spaces of constant positive curvature. Such groups also arise in the theory of norm relations in algebraic number theory, as demonstrated recently by Biasse, Fieker, Hofmann, and Page (2020). This report aims to synthesize the information and results from these and other sources to give a continuous, self-contained development of the subject. I introduce new points of view, terminology, results, and proofs in an effort to give a coherent, detailed, self-contained, and accessible narrative.

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Wayne Aitken. 2021-01-31. Report on Freely Representable Groups. https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00559

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