%0 Journal Article %T Primitive orthogonal idempotents for R-trivial monoids %A Chris Berg %A Nantel Bergeron %A Sandeep Bhargava %A Franco Saliola %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2011.10.006 %X We construct a recursive formula for a complete system of primitive orthogonal idempotents for any $R$-trivial monoid. This uses the newly proved equivalence between the notions of $R$-trivial monoid and weakly ordered monoid. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4943v3