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Let G be a group. One says that G is abelian (or commutative) if st = ts for all s, t ∈ G. This amounts to saying that each conjugacy class of G consists of a single element, also that each function on G is a class function. The linear representations of such a group are particularly simple:
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Serre, JP. (1977). Subgroups, products, induced representations. In: Linear Representations of Finite Groups. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 42. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9458-7_3
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