Trivial source module
= Trivial source module
Over a modular field or a complete discrete valuation coefficient <ring>, an indecomposable <module> has trivial source when a source is the rank-one trivial <module> of its vertex. These are precisely the indecomposable <direct summands> of <permutation modules>. A general trivial source <module> is a <direct sum> of these indecomposables.