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.