For a nonzero finite-dimensional complex vector space , a unital matrix algebra acting irreducibly on is the full endomorphism algebra. Its Jacobson radical annihilates : otherwise the radical times is all of , contradicting nilpotence. Faithfulness kills the radical, and the Artin–Wedderburn theorem then leaves one simple matrix factor acting on its standard column module. This is a matrix-algebra theorem, distinct from the orbit-counting Burnside lemma and the finite-group Burnside's theorem.
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