TY - JOUR TT - ON SUBGROUP DEPTH (WITH AN APPENDIX BY S. DANZ AND B. KULSHAMMER) AU - Burciu, Sebastian AU - Kadison, Lars AU - Külshammer, Burkhard PY - 2011 DA - June JF - International Electronic Journal of Algebra JO - IEJA PB - Abdullah HARMANCI WT - DergiPark SN - 1306-6048 SP - 133 EP - 166 VL - 9 IS - 9 KW - ring extension KW - depth KW - group algebra KW - Hopf algebra KW - normal subring KW - inclusion matrix N2 - We define a notion of depth for an inclusion of complex semisimple algebras, based on a comparison of powers of the induction-restriction table (and its transpose matrix) and a previous notion of depth in an earlier paper of the second author. We prove that a depth two extension of complex semisimple algebras is normal in the sense of Rieffel, and conversely. Given an extension H ⊆ G of finite groups we prove that the depth of C H in C G is bounded by 2n if the kernel of the permutation representation of G on cosets of H is the intersection of n conjugate subgroups of H. We prove in several ways that the subgroup depth of symmetric groups Sn ⊆ Sn+1 is 2n − 1. An appendix by S. Danz and B. K¨ulshammer determines the subgroup depth of alternating groups An ⊆ An+1 and dihedral group extensions. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ieja/issue//266320 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/232843 ER -