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Shortening.

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irrep (plural irreps)

  1. (mathematics) Clipping of irreducible representation.
    • 1996, Barry Simon, Representations of Finite and Compact Groups, page 50:
      The interesting aspect here is that U3 is irreducible, even though all irreps over the complexes are one-dimensional because ℤ4 is abelian.

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