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Central idempotents in p-adic group rings

Part of: Representation theory of groups Rings and algebras arising under various constructions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Burkhard Külshammer
Burkhard Külshammer
Affiliation:
Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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Abstract

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We provide character-free proofs of some results on idempotents in p-adic group rings, centering around Brauer's Second Main Theorem on Blocks.

MSC classification

Secondary: 20C05: Group rings of finite groups and their modules 20C11: $p$-adic representations of finite groups 20C20: Modular representations and characters 16S34: Group rings , Laurent polynomial rings
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 278 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1994

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