Block of S3 in characteristic three

ID: block-of-s3-in-characteristic-three

Over a field of characteristic three, the group algebra has a single block of an Artinian algebra. Put , and . Then , , and : the latter is a nilpotent ideal, with semisimple ring quotient . The center of an associative algebra is , whose last two summands form a square-zero ideal. A central idempotent satisfies and , hence is zero or one. Thus no nontrivial central block decomposition exists.

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