The Adams operations on the representation ring R(G) are maps Ψk characterised by their effect on characters χ:
The operations Ψk are ring homomorphisms of R(G) to itself, and on representations ρ of dimension d
where the Λiρ are the exterior powers of ρ and Nk is the k-th Newton polynomial.
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