TITLE: Irreducible Representation by Restriction
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: Let $H$ be a subgroup of a finite group $G$.Given an irreducible representation $\pi$ of $G$,we may decompose its restriction to $H$ into irreducible $H$- representations.Show that every irreducible representation of $H$ can be obtained in this way.
My initial idea was to use induced representations,but later I wanted prove this result without appealing to that concept.I am stuck with this problem for quite some time.Please help.Thanks.

REPLY [6 votes]: I'm not really sure why you'd insist you don't want to use induced representations here; Frobenius reciprocity means it's the natural approach, and this is an immediate corollary of Frobenius reciprocity...
But OK. Suppose there is an irreducible representation $\sigma$ of $H$ which isn't contained in the restriction of an irreducible representation of $G$. Then $\sigma$ doesn't occur in the restriction to $H$ of the regular representation $\Bbb{C}[G]$ of $G$, which contains a copy of $\Bbb{C}[H]$, and hence of $\sigma$, so you're done.