2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/144885The goal of these notes is to give a self-contained account of the representation theory of $GL_2$ and $SL_2$ over a finite field, and to give some indication of how the theory works for $GL_n$ over a finite field.56 pages, Notes from a course taught at the Advanced Instructional School on Representation Theory and Related Topics held at the Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana and the University of Pune in July 2007Representation Theory22C33Representations of $GL_2(\Fq)$ and $SL_2(\Fq)$, and some remarks about $GL_n(\Fq)$text