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Counting Irreducible Representations of a Finite Abelian Group

Group Theory 2025-04-18 v1

Abstract

Let qq be a power of a prime pp, GG be a finite abelian group, where pp does not divide G|G|,and let nn be a positive integer. In this paper we find a formula for the number of irreducible representations of GG of a given dimension nn over the field of order qq, up to equivalence, using Brauer characters. We also provide a formula for such nn using the prime decomposition of the exponent of GG and an algorithm to compute the irreducible degrees and their multiplicities.

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@article{arxiv.2504.12787,
  title  = {Counting Irreducible Representations of a Finite Abelian Group},
  author = {Thomas Breuer and Prashun Kumar and Geetha Venkataraman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.12787},
  year   = {2025}
}

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