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If $A$ is empty, take the zero generalized character; if $B$ is empty, take the trivial character. Otherwise let $\pi$ be the set of primes dividing the orders of elements of $A$. The coprimality hypothesis makes every element of $B$ a ${\pi }^{\prime }$-element. Thus every nonidentity element of $G$ is either a pi-element in $A$ or a complementary-prime element in $B$. In particular these sets are unions of conjugacy classes, since conjugation preserves element order.

Put $m=|G{|}_{\pi }$ and $n=|G{|}_{{\pi }^{\prime }}$. Their greatest common divisor is one, so the Chinese remainder theorem supplies an integer $d$ such thatDefine the class function $f$ by $f(1)=d$, $f=1$ on $A$ and $f=0$ on $B$. We verify Brauer's characterization of characters directly.

For an elementary subgroup $E=P\times C$, the cyclic factor can be split into its $\pi$-part and ${\pi }^{\prime }$-part. Attach $P$ to the part containing its prime. This expresses $E=E_{\pi }\times E_{{\pi }^{\prime }}$. Both factors cannot be nontrivial: choosing a nonidentity element in each would give a commuting product of mixed prime order, whereas every element of $G$ has order involving only one of the two prime sets. Hence $E$ is wholly a $\pi$-group or wholly a ${\pi }^{\prime }$-group.

Let $r_E$ be the character of the regular representation of $E$, with value $|E|$ at the identity and zero elsewhere. In the two cases respectively,The coefficients are integers because $|E|$ divides $m$ or $n$. Thus both are generalized characters. The trivial subgroup causes no difficulty since $d$ is an integer. By Brauer's characterization of characters, $f$ is a generalized character of $G$.

This is a generalized character separating complementary prime elements; the freely chosen value at the identity is what makes all elementary restrictions integral.