Looking at the character table for ¯O (double group of O) in a book, I noticed that two out of three of the additional irreps (with respect to the five irreps from O itself) are actually just representations of the rotational group (D(j) with j = 1/2 and j = 3/2) restricted to ¯O (D(j)|¯O). The third irrep than follows from the reduction of D(5/2)|¯O.
It is thus possible to setup the character table of ¯O by using the table of O for the single-valued irreps and by reducing the appropriate restricted irreps of the rotational group.
My question is:
Is it possible to find all the characters of all the double-valued irreps of a double group ¯G just by reducing the D(j)|¯G?
And related: Is D(1/2)|¯G always an irrep of the double group?
Edit:
The character table of ¯O can be found on page 347 of Group Theory - Application to the Physics of Condensed Matter by M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus and A. Jorio. ISBN 978-3-540-32897-1
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