Structural taxonomy and complex irreducible representations of non-abelian groups of order p^4
Let $p$ be an odd prime and let $G$ be a non-abelian group of order $p^4$. The classification of groups of order $p^4$ provides a natural setting for studying the structure of their complex group algebras. In this paper, we consider a non-abelian group G of order $p^4$ and determine the primitive central idempotents of the complex group algebra $\mathbb{C}G$. Using these idempotents, we obtain the corresponding decomposition of $\mathbb{C}G$ into simple components and describe the irreducible representations of $G$. The results provide an explicit description of the representation-theoretic structure of the chosen non-abelian group of order $p^4$ and illustrate the role of primitive central idempotents in the Wedderburn decomposition of its complex group algebra.
Authors
- Jagmohan Tanti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0078-7494)
- Satyam Shukla
Publication Details
- Journal
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Published
- 2026-10-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2610.35198
- Primary Topic
- Finite Group Theory Research
- Type
- preprint