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The Coordinate Ring of a Linearly Reductive Group

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This lecture covers the properties of the coordinate ring of a linearly reductive group, including the isotypic decomposition of the module, the construction of the ring, and the dimensionality considerations of the module.

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Algebra: Abstract algebra

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