Artin's theorem on induced characters

In representation theory, a branch of mathematics, Artin's theorem, introduced by E. Artin, states that a character on a finite group is a rational linear combination of characters induced from cyclic subgroups of the group. There is a similar but somehow more precise theorem due to Brauer, which says that the theorem remains true if "rational" and "cyclic subgroup" are replaced with "integer" and "elementary subgroup".

References

• Serre, Jean-Pierre (1977-09-01). Linear Representations of Finite Groups. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 42. New York–Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-90190-9. https://archive.org/details/linearrepresenta1977serr. 

Further reading

• http://www.math.toronto.edu/murnaghan/courses/mat445/artinbrauer.pdf