In the first half of this paper, all the limits of irreducible characters of Gn = 𝔖n(T) as n → ∞ are calculated. The set of all continuous limit functions on G = 𝔖 ∞(T) is exactly equal to the set of all characters of G determined in [HH6]. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a series of irreducible characters of Gn to have a continuous limit and also such a condition to have a discontinuous limit. In the second half, we study the limits of characters of certain induced representations of Gn which are usually reducible. The limits turn out to be characters of G, and we analyse which of irreducible components are responsible to these limits.

Let $N/K$ be a biquadratic extension of algebraic number fields, and $G\,=\,\text{Gal(}N/K\text{)}$. Under a weak restriction on the ramification filtration associated with each prime of $K$ above 2, we explicitly describe the $\mathbb{Z}\text{ }[G]\text{ }$-module structure of each ambiguous ideal of $N$. We find under this restriction that in the representation of each ambiguous ideal as a $\mathbb{Z}\text{ }[G]\text{ }$-module, the exponent (or multiplicity) of each indecomposable module is determined by the invariants of ramification, alone.

For a given group, $G$, define ${{S}_{G}}$ to be the set of indecomposable $\mathbb{Z}\text{ }[G]\text{ }$-modules, $M$, such that there is an extension, $N/K$, for which $G\cong \text{Gal(}N/K\text{)}$, and $M$ is a $\mathbb{Z}\text{ }[G]\text{ }$-module summand of an ambiguous ideal of $N$. Can ${{S}_{G}}$ ever be infinite? In this paper we answer this question of Chinburg in the affirmative.

Let L/K be a finite Galois extension of local fields which are finite extensions of ℚp, the field of p-adic numbers. Let Gal(L/K) = G, and 𝔒L and ℤp be the rings of integers in L and ℚp, respectively. And let 𝔓L denote the maximal ideal of 𝔒L. We determine, explicitly in terms of specific indecomposable ℤp[G]-modules, the ℤp[G]-module structure of 𝔒L and 𝔓L, for L, a composite of two arithmetically disjoint, ramified cyclic extensions of K, one of which is only weakly ramified in the sense of Erez [6].

By exploiting the known quasi-heredity of Schur algebras, the structure of basic algebras of the Schur algebras Sk(n, p) for n ≥ p over an algebraically closed field k is completely determined.