Pseudorepresentations not arising from genuine representations

Abstract

We show that a pseudorepresentation $\textbf{D}\colon A[G] \to A$ of a (finite) group $G$ need not arise from a genuine representation, even if one is allowed to extend the ring $A$. This shows that a theorem of the "embedding problem" for residually multiplicity free pseudorepresentations can not be extended to the general setting.