An algorithm to compute the primitive central idempotents and the Wedderburn decomposition of a rational group algebra.

DOI10.1016/S0747-7171(03)00035-XzbMath1050.16015MaRDI QIDQ1394942

Ángel Del Río, Aurora A. Olivieri

Publication date: 25 June 2003

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

algorithms; group rings; Wedderburn decompositions; primitive central idempotents; programs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68W30: Symbolic computation and algebraic computation

16S34: Group rings

20C05: Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects)

16Z05: Computational aspects of associative rings (general theory)

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Uses Software

• GAP
• wedderga

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