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False statement: a completely reducible representation has a unique decomposition into irreducible subrepresentations
Statement
False claim. A completely reducible representation has a unique decomposition into irreducible subrepresentations.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The two-dimensional trivial representation of .
The two-dimensional trivial representation of has two different decompositions into irreducible subrepresentations, while its isotypic component is still unique (The two-dimensional trivial representation of has many irreducible splittings but one isotypic component).
The uniqueness theorem concerns the isotypic decomposition, not the choice of individual irreducible summands (A decomposition into irreducible summands need not be unique even when the isotypic decomposition is).
Refutation
The example [L1] exhibits one completely reducible representation with two different decompositions into irreducible subrepresentations.
By [L2], this does not contradict isotypic uniqueness: the isotypic block is canonical, but the individual irreducible splitting is not. Therefore the displayed example refutes the claim.
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Sources
- Peter Webb, A Course in Finite Group Representation Theory, Chapter 1 Section 1.2 (standard reference, not scraped)