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Over a splitting field for finite group representations of characteristic $p$, the irreducible Brauer characters form a complex basis of the class functions on the p-regular elements. Independence is the character form of the Brauer–Nesbitt theorem. To obtain spanning, extend such a class function by zero on the p-singular classes. Ordinary irreducible characters form a basis of all class functions by character orthogonality. Restricting them to p-regular elements yields Brauer characters of reductions of an integral form of a group representation in a compatible splitting p-modular system; if needed, first extend scalars, which does not change the simple-module list under the splitting hypothesis. Each restriction is a nonnegative integral sum of simple Brauer characters by exact-sequence additivity and the Jordan–Hölder theorem. Thus these restrictions span, proving the assertion. Consequently the number of simple modules equals the number of p-regular conjugacy classes, and evaluation identifies the complexified modular representation ring with the product of one copy of $\mathbb{C}$ for each such class.

For a finite Galois extension $L/K$ and a conjugacy class $C$ in its Galois group, the unramified primes with Frobenius class $C$ have density $|C|/|\mathrm{Gal}(L/K)|$.

For a finite abelian group $G$, $U(h)|g⟩=|g+h⟩$ defines the regular representation on the basis labelled by $G$. The linear characters give the common eigenbasisCharacter orthogonality proves orthonormality, and changing variables by the translation in a group proves the eigenvalue formula.

A nonprincipal Dirichlet character differs from the principal Dirichlet character. Equivalently, it is a nontrivial character on the unit group, so its sum over one full residue period is zero by character orthogonality. Its Dirichlet L-function is entire by Mellin continuation of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function.