Can an irreducible representation have a zero character?

group-theory representation-theory

Solution 1:

CW answer to take this off the unanswered list. The question was answered by the OP on MO. The answer is "no"; see I.M. Isaacs, Character Theory of Finite Groups, coroll 9.22, Dover, p. 155.

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