After reviewing the group structure and representation theory for dihedral $$D_{2n},$$ we consider an intertwining operator $$\varPhi _\rho $$ from algebra $$\mathbb {C}[D_{2n}]$$ into a corresponding space of semi-magic matrices. From this operator, one obtains generating function enumerating associated squares with fixed line sum extending circulant While work complements approach to $$D_{2n}...

Abstract. The sequence of pitches which form a musical melody can be transposed or inverted. Since the 1970s, music theorists have modeled musical transposition and inversion in terms of an action of the dihedral group of order 24. More recently music theorists have found an intriguing second way that the dihedral group of order 24 acts on the set of major and minor chords. We illustrate both g...

Let L/F be a dihedral extension of degree 2p, where p is an odd prime. Let K/F and k/F be subextensions of L/F with degrees p and 2, respectively. Then we will study relations between the p-ranks of the class groups Cl(K) and Cl(k). 1. A Short History of Reflection Theorems Results comparing the p-rank of class groups of different number fields (often based on the interplay between Kummer theor...

Recent work by a number of people has shown that complex reflection groups give rise to many representation-theoretic structures (e.g., generic degrees and families of characters), as though they were Weyl groups of algebraic groups. Conjecturally, these structures are actually describing the representation theory of as-yet undescribed objects called spetses, of which reductive algebraic groups...