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Noether and Molien’s Theorems

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Charles at Rigorous Trivialities has written a post outlining the proof of two pretty theorems from the invariant theory of finite groups: Noether’s theorem that the ring of invariants is finitely generated, and Molien’s formula for the number of homogeneous invariants of a given degree.