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May 12, 2010 at 8:35 comment added ogerard @Roland Bacher: thanks to mention the Burnside ring. As you do, I believe this gives the proper context (and marks tables a good pedagogical tool) for similarity and isomorphism of permutation groups.
May 12, 2010 at 7:01 comment added Roland Bacher The first observation is the statement that one has also to consider the corresponding element in the Burnside ring encoding distinct (formal) permutation representations of finite groups, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnside_ring. It generalizes to the fact that two linear groups can be abstractly isomorphic but can correspond to non-isomorphic representations of the underlying abstract group.
May 12, 2010 at 6:20 history answered ogerard CC BY-SA 2.5