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Why the character of any representation is a central function?
Few questions on Character of representation .Character table from a representation?What is the central idempotent of a representation?Character as sum with regular representationCharacter of a RepresentationAdditive character : For any field or for a finite field?Class function and character of $S_3$ representationCharacter regular representationUnitary Central Character by Schur's LemmaWhen is a class function the character of a representation?
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Why the character of any representation is a central function?

Could anyone explain this for me please?
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Why the character of any representation is a central function?

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Because similar matrices have the same trace. Or are you also looking for an explanation of that (which is a pure linear-algebra fract)?
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Could anyone explain this for me please?
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Because similar matrices have the same trace. Or are you also looking for an explanation of that (which is a pure linear-algebra fract)?
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Because similar matrices have the same trace. Or are you also looking for an explanation of that (which is a pure linear-algebra fract)?
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Because similar matrices have the same trace. Or are you also looking for an explanation of that (which is a pure linear-algebra fract)?
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Because the character $chi(g)$ is the trace of the action of $g$ and because any two similar matrices have the same trace.
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Because the character $chi(g)$ is the trace of the action of $g$ and because any two similar matrices have the same trace.
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Because the character $chi(g)$ is the trace of the action of $g$ and because any two similar matrices have the same trace.
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Because the character $chi(g)$ is the trace of the action of $g$ and because any two similar matrices have the same trace.
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Because the character $chi(g)$ is the trace of the action of $g$ and because any two similar matrices have the same trace.
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