Separating invariants for the klein four group and cyclic groups

Abstract

We consider indecomposable representations of the Klein four group over a field of characteristic 2 and of a cyclic group of order pm with p, m coprime over a field of characteristic p. For each representation, we explicitly describe a separating set in the corresponding ring of invariants. Our construction is recursive and the separating sets we obtain consist of almost entirely orbit sums and products. © 2013 World Scientific Publishing Company