Computing the Wedderburn decomposition of group algebras by the Brauer-Witt theorem
Authors:
Gabriela Olteanu.
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, North University of Baia Mare, Victoriei 76, 430072 Baia Mare, Romania.
Abstract:
We present an alternative constructive proof of the Brauer-Witt theorem using the so-called strongly monomial characters that gives rise to an algorithm for computing the Wedderburn decomposition of semisimple group algebras of finite groups.