Irreducible real representation of abelian group is one or two dimensional

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Statement

Every irreducible real representation of an abelian group $G$ is one or two-dimensional.

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See also

• Irreducible complex representation of abelian group is one dimensional, a similar result over the complex numbers.
• Schur's lemma