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Determination of Brauer Characters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

B. M. Puttaswamaiah*
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
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The purpose of this note is to show that the values of an irreducible (Brauer) character are the characteristic values of a matrix with non-negative rational integers. The construction of these integral matrices is done by a description of a representation of the Grothendieck ring of the category of modules over the group algebra. In particular a result of Solomon on characters and a result of Burnside on vanishing of a non-linear character on some conjugate class are generalized.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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