KenŐs Notes on
Rational Idempotents
in the
Integral Group Ring
(Applications to Algebraic Combinatorics)
These notes are part of a
project with Jim Davis (University of Richmond) and were started during a
sabbatical visit there in 2005-2006.
The notes are primarily .pdf
files. More material is
forthcomingÉ.
The material here is still in
draft form.
Section
1, Motivation
Section
2, Group Rings
Note
the examples towards the end of chapter 2.
Section
3, Group characters and their Idempotents
There
are a few useful exercises at the end of this section.
Section
4, Tools from Algebraic Number Theory
Section
5, Rational Idempotents
Last modified on April 16, 2007.