PARABOLIC SUBGROUPS AND CUSPIDAL REPRESENTATIONS OF FINITE MONOIDS
Jan Okniński, Mohan S. Putcha · International Journal of Algebra and Computation · 1991
This paper is mostly concerned with arbitrary finite monoids M with the complex semigroup algebra [Formula: see text] semisimple. Using the 1942 work of Clifford, we develop for these monoids a theory of cuspidal representations. Harish-Chandra's philosophy of cuspidal representations of finite groups can then be derived with an appropriate specialization. For [Formula: see text], we use Solomon's Hecke algebra to obtain a correspondence between the 'simple' representations of [Formula: see text] and the representations of the symmetric inverse semigroup. We also prove a semisimplicity theorem for a special class of finite monoids of the type which was earlier used by the authors to prove the semisimplicity of [Formula: see text].