On Monomial Characters and Central Idempotents of Rational Group Algebras

Abstract We give a method to obtain the primitive central idempotent of the rational group algebra ℚG over a finite group G associated to a monomial irreducible character which does not involve computations with the character field nor its Galois group. We also show that for abelian-by-supersolvable groups this method takes a particularly easy form that can be used to compute the Wedderburn decomposition of ℚG.

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