A -character, , of a group is a certain function
which descends to a function of -conjugacy classes.
A -conjugacy class in is a minimal subset of which is closed under -fold conjugation in the following sense:
The quotient map which sends elements in to their -conjugacy class is called (at least for ) the weak Cayley table of .
For a brief review and a collection of many relevant references see
There is a succinct functorial reformulation of -conjugacy classes. This is described at higher group characters.
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