67.9 IsAbsolutelyIrreducible

IsAbsolutelyIrreducible( module )

The G-module module is tested for absolute irreducibility, and true or false is returned. If the result is false, then the dimension e of the centralising field of module can be accessed by DegreeFieldExtFlag(module). A matrix which centralises module (that is, it centralises the generating matrices GeneratorsFlag(module)) and which has minimal polynomial of degree e over the ground field can be accessed as CentMatFlag(module). If such a matrix is required with multiplicative order q^e-1, where q is the order of the ground field, then FieldGenCentMat (see FieldGenCentMat) can be called.

The algorithm is described in [5].

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April 1997