Download or read book Projective Representations of the Symmetric Groups written by Peter Norman Hoffman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the symmetric groups forms one of the basic building blocks of modern group theory. This book presents information currently known on the projective representations of the symmetric and alternating groups. Special emphasis is placed on the theory of Q-functions and skew Q-functions.