Use finite-dimensional -modules or finite -free lattices. We use the basic relative-projectivity facts that Krull-Schmidt decomposition holds with local endomorphism rings, module vertices are conjugate p-subgroups, and a module source at a module vertex satisfies and . Module induction is transitive and Mackey restriction formula gives module vertex containment for restrictions and inductions. In particular, a summand induced from has module vertex conjugate into , and module restriction to a subgroup containing a chosen module vertex retains a summand with that module vertex. The latter follows from the module source conditions and minimality: restricting further to must still contain its module source, whose module vertex is .
The module vertex- form of Green correspondence states that for there is a bijection between indecomposable -modules with module vertex and indecomposable -modules with module vertex . Its maps select the unique module vertex- summands of module restriction and induction, using -conjugacy for restricted module vertices and -conjugacy for induced module vertices. They occur with multiplicity one and have the same module sources. Other induction summands have module vertices conjugate to proper subgroups of . The module restriction remainder is relatively projective for
Relative projectivity for a family means being a summand of a finite sum of inductions from its members. We prove this form; no stronger description of the induction remainder is needed for the application.
Let have module vertex over . The identity double coset in Mackey restriction formula gives
Since is relatively -projective, a further Mackey decomposition puts every other double coset term in the relatively- family. No member of contains an -conjugate of . Otherwise, conjugation within would give with , . Equality of orders then makes , a contradiction. Therefore the module restriction above contains exactly one summand with module vertex -conjugate to , namely once.
Decompose into indecomposable modules. All their module vertices are conjugate into . Each one with a module vertex -conjugate to can take itself as module vertex and contributes a module vertex- summand on module restriction to . There can thus be at most one such summand and its multiplicity is one. There must be at least one, because smaller module vertices cannot restrict to produce , with module vertex , in the displayed decomposition. Define to be that summand. Its module restriction contains once, with remainder a summand of . All other induction summands have strictly smaller module vertices. This is Green correspondence from Mackey multiplicity.
Conversely take of module vertex over with module source . Decompose into indecomposable modules. Since , the local endomorphism ring and Krull-Schmidt decomposition give for one indecomposable summand of . Its module vertex is -conjugate to : all module vertices are conjugate into , and a smaller one could not induce . The preceding uniqueness makes and identifies as the unique module vertex- summand of . Define . This proves and .
If is a module source of , then and . These two conditions and the common module vertex show that is also a module source of . Thus the correspondence preserves module sources, including trivial source modules, and the proof is complete under the stated coefficient conventions.
For the required expression, a p-local module is a finite sum of inductions from for nontrivial p-subgroups . Induct on the order of a module vertex of . Vertex 1 makes projective, so choose , .
For module vertex , take for . Its module induction is p-local and
with smaller module vertices for the . By induction, write
with p-local and projective. Adding these identities and substituting the induction decomposition gives
Hence the explicit choices
work. All sums are finite and module vertex orders strictly decrease, so the induction terminates. If , induction from that normalizer is still allowed by the definition of p-local.