| « | 22-26 July 2013   •   Samuel Eilenberg |  | Centenary Conference
   •   Warsaw, Poland | » | 
Eilenberg, at NSF summer institute, Bowdoin College:
   Why treat index 2 as special case?
   Why mix left regular representation of G with right cosets of H?
   If you need room for a good involutory permutation τ, just make room —
 add another point ∞ to the space G/H of left cosets gH of H ,  
forming E = G/H ∪ {∞} ,
 have τ ∈ E! interchange H with ∞ but leave the rest of G/H alone.
 Then do as before:
 
   Write κτ: 
E! → E! for conjugation by the involution τ — 
κτ(σ) = τ·σ·τ ; 
 compose left-regular
representation 
  ρ: G → (G/H)! ⊂ E! 
({ρ(g)}(xH) = gxH , {ρ(g)}(∞) = ∞ )  
 with κτ: E! → E! ;  
for h ∈ H and C ∈ G/H ∪ {∞} 
( C = xH 
(x ∈ G) or C = ∞ ) , 
 calculate {κτ·ρ(h)}(C) =
 τ({ρ(h)}(τ(C))) = 
 {ρ(h)}(C)