Skew group rings, representations of group algebras, and applications to fixed rings (Q1901969)

Let \(G\) be a finite group acting as inner automorphisms on a simple ring \(A\) with center \(K\) and assume that the order of \(G\) is nonzero in \(A\). The purpose of this paper is to extend to the skew group ring \(A * G\), the classical expression for central idempotents of the group ring \(A[G]\); we use the characters of the irreducible representations of the twisted group algebra \(C_{A * G} A\) instead of the irreducible characters of \(G\), that is of the representations of the group algebra \(K[G]\). As a consequence, we obtain the central idempotents of the fixed subring \(A^G\) and we calculate the Jones index of \(A^G\) in \(A\), which is also the reduced order of \(G\).