Talk:Right and Left Regular Representations in Topological Group are Homeomorphisms

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I don't call that a "representation", I call that an action of the group into itself by translation or simply left or right multiplication. What I call a representation of a group $G$ is a group homomorphism $\phi:G\to GL_n(\mathbb{F})$; where $\mathbb{F}$ is a field and $GL_n(\mathbb{F})$ is the general linear group.

That is why I didn't find it when I looked it up (I didn't use the word representation in the search); but I will linked it to what is already defined in the wiki.--Dan232 15:55, 7 December 2011 (CST)

The terms "left regular representation" and "right regular representation" are the names found in 1965: Seth Warner: Modern Algebra: $\S 7, \ \S 8$. "Representation" is a fairly loose word which can be applied to many things, including your group homomorphism (I believe that is also somewhere in proofwiki) but "regular representation" as defined here is the most general, from what I can tell. It is of course also a group action, and I think we've got that proved in here as well, somewhere (or at least we ought to have). --prime mover 16:25, 7 December 2011 (CST)

Isn't "Right and Left Regular Representations in Topological Group are Homeomorphisms" a bit long? Especially to link to this, I'd prefer a shorter synonym. I think e.g. "Topological Group" can be left out. No links to this so far. --barto (talk) 13:40, 23 January 2017 (EST)

Not overly long. Topological Group is not essential to the title, but useful. --prime mover (talk) 15:29, 23 January 2017 (EST)