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Edited in view of Derek Holt's comment on Schur indices: These things are well studied in the literature. You probably want to restrict to irreducible subgroups, and it's probably just as well to work with ${\rm GL}(3,K).$ In such a low dimensions, the Schur index usually will not play much of a role. The Schur index usually arises because it can happen that a complex irreducible character $\chi$ may take values in a field $K,$ but might not be afforded by a representation over $\chi.$$K.$ There is, however, a smallest integer $m_{K}(\chi)$ such that the character $m_{K}(\chi) \chi$ is afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ For$K$ and $3$-dimensional representations over$m_{K}(\chi)$ divides $K,$ we will not have$\chi(1).$ If $m_{K}(\chi) >1,$ and$m_{K}(\chi) =3,$ then representation affording $3$-dimensional irreducible complex representations will$\chi$ can only be realisablerealised over the fielda degree $3$ extension of their character$K$. Similarly, exceptExcept in degenerate cases, we won't have irreducible representations over $K$ which are not absolutely irreducible, since such a a representation would break up over some extension field of $K$ as a sum of Galois conjugate repesentationsrepresentations of the same degree. The finite irreducible subgroups of ${\rm GL}(3,\mathbb{C})$ have been known for a century or so. Such an imprimitive group has an Abelian normal subgroup $A$ such that $G/A$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $S_{3}.$ The primitive ones may be rescaled so that all elements are unimodular, and once this is done, we obtain $G/Z(G)$ isomorphic to $A_{5}, A_{6},{\rm PSL}(2,7)$ or else $G$ is a solvable group with $G/O_{3}(G)$ isomorphic to ${\rm SL}(2,3)$ and $[G:Z(G)] = 216.$

These things are well studied in the literature. You probably want to restrict to irreducible subgroups, and it's probably just as well to work with ${\rm GL}(3,K).$ In such a low dimensions, the Schur index usually will not play a role. The Schur index usually arises because it can happen that a complex irreducible character $\chi$ may take values in a field $K,$ but might not be afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ There is, however, a smallest integer $m_{K}(\chi)$ such that the character $m_{K}(\chi) \chi$ is afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ For $3$-dimensional representations over $K,$ we will not have $m_{K}(\chi) >1,$ and $3$-dimensional irreducible complex representations will be realisable over the field of their character. Similarly, except in degenerate cases, we won't have irreducible representations over $K$ which are not absolutely irreducible, since such a a representation would break up over some extension field of $K$ as a sum of Galois conjugate repesentations of the same degree. The finite irreducible subgroups of ${\rm GL}(3,\mathbb{C})$ have been known for a century or so. Such an imprimitive group has an Abelian normal subgroup $A$ such that $G/A$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $S_{3}.$ The primitive ones may be rescaled so that all elements are unimodular, and once this is done, we obtain $G/Z(G)$ isomorphic to $A_{5}, A_{6},{\rm PSL}(2,7)$ or else $G$ is a solvable group with $G/O_{3}(G)$ isomorphic to ${\rm SL}(2,3)$ and $[G:Z(G)] = 216.$

Edited in view of Derek Holt's comment on Schur indices: These things are well studied in the literature. You probably want to restrict to irreducible subgroups, and it's probably just as well to work with ${\rm GL}(3,K).$ In such a low dimensions, the Schur index usually will not play much of a role. The Schur index usually arises because it can happen that a complex irreducible character $\chi$ may take values in a field $K,$ but might not be afforded by a representation over $K.$ There is, however, a smallest integer $m_{K}(\chi)$ such that the character $m_{K}(\chi) \chi$ is afforded by a representation over $K$ and $m_{K}(\chi)$ divides $\chi(1).$ If $m_{K}(\chi) =3,$ then representation affording $\chi$ can only be realised over a degree $3$ extension of $K$.Except in degenerate cases, we won't have irreducible representations over $K$ which are not absolutely irreducible, since such a a representation would break up over some extension field of $K$ as a sum of Galois conjugate representations of the same degree. The finite irreducible subgroups of ${\rm GL}(3,\mathbb{C})$ have been known for a century or so. Such an imprimitive group has an Abelian normal subgroup $A$ such that $G/A$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $S_{3}.$ The primitive ones may be rescaled so that all elements are unimodular, and once this is done, we obtain $G/Z(G)$ isomorphic to $A_{5}, A_{6},{\rm PSL}(2,7)$ or else $G$ is a solvable group with $G/O_{3}(G)$ isomorphic to ${\rm SL}(2,3)$ and $[G:Z(G)] = 216.$

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These things are well studied in the literature. You probably want to restrict to irreducible subgroups, and it's probably just as well to work with ${\rm GL}(3,K).$ In such a low dimensions, the Schur index usually will not play a role. The Schur index usually arises because it can happen that a complex irreducible character $\chi$ may take values in a field $K,$ but might not be afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ There is, however, a smallest integer $m_{K}(\chi)$ such that the character $m_{K}(\chi) \chi$ is afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ For $3$-dimensional representations over $K,$ we will not have $m_{K}(\chi) >1,$ and $3$-dimensional irreducible complex representations will be realisable over the field of their character. Similarly, except in degenerate cases, we won't have irreducible representations over $K$ which are not absolutely irreducible, since such a a representation would break up over some extension field of $K$ as a sum of Galois conjugate repesentations of the same degree. The finite irreducible subgroups of ${\rm GL}(3,\mathbb{C})$ have been known for a century or so. Such an imprimitive group has an Abelian normal subgroup $A$ such that $G/A$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $S_{3}.$ The primitive ones may be rescaled so that all elements are unimodular, and once this is done, we obtain $G/Z(G)$ isomorphic to $A_{5}, A_{6},{\rm PSL}(2,7)$ or else $G$ is a solvable group with $G/O_{3}(G)$ isomorphic to ${\rm SL}(2,3)$ and $[G:Z(G)] = 216.$

These things are well studied in the literature. You probably want to restrict to irreducible subgroups, and it's probably just as well to work with ${\rm GL}(3,K).$ In such a low dimensions, the Schur index usually will not play a role. The Schur index usually arises because it can happen that a complex irreducible character $\chi$ may take values in a field $K,$ but might not be afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ There is, however, a smallest integer $m_{K}(\chi)$ such that the character $m_{K}(\chi) \chi$ is afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ For $3$-dimensional representations over $K,$ we will not have $m_{K}(\chi) >1,$ and $3$-dimensional irreducible complex representations will be realisable over the field of their character. Similarly, except in degenerate cases, we won't have irreducible representations over $K$ which are not absolutely irreducible, since such a a representation would break up over some extension field of $K$ as a sum of Galois conjugate repesentations of the same degree.

These things are well studied in the literature. You probably want to restrict to irreducible subgroups, and it's probably just as well to work with ${\rm GL}(3,K).$ In such a low dimensions, the Schur index usually will not play a role. The Schur index usually arises because it can happen that a complex irreducible character $\chi$ may take values in a field $K,$ but might not be afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ There is, however, a smallest integer $m_{K}(\chi)$ such that the character $m_{K}(\chi) \chi$ is afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ For $3$-dimensional representations over $K,$ we will not have $m_{K}(\chi) >1,$ and $3$-dimensional irreducible complex representations will be realisable over the field of their character. Similarly, except in degenerate cases, we won't have irreducible representations over $K$ which are not absolutely irreducible, since such a a representation would break up over some extension field of $K$ as a sum of Galois conjugate repesentations of the same degree. The finite irreducible subgroups of ${\rm GL}(3,\mathbb{C})$ have been known for a century or so. Such an imprimitive group has an Abelian normal subgroup $A$ such that $G/A$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $S_{3}.$ The primitive ones may be rescaled so that all elements are unimodular, and once this is done, we obtain $G/Z(G)$ isomorphic to $A_{5}, A_{6},{\rm PSL}(2,7)$ or else $G$ is a solvable group with $G/O_{3}(G)$ isomorphic to ${\rm SL}(2,3)$ and $[G:Z(G)] = 216.$

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These things are well studied in the literature. You probably want to restrict to irreducible subgroups, and it's probably just as well to work with ${\rm GL}(3,K).$ In such a low dimensions, the Schur index usually will not play a role. The Schur index usually arises because it can happen that a complex irreducible character $\chi$ may take values in a field $K,$ but might not be afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ There is, however, a smallest integer $m_{K}(\chi)$ such that the character $m_{K}(\chi) \chi$ is afforded by a representation over $\chi.$ For $3$-dimensional representations over $K,$ we will not have $m_{K}(\chi) >1,$ and $3$-dimensional irreducible complex representations will be realisable over the field of their character. Similarly, except in degenerate cases, we won't have irreducible representations over $K$ which are not absolutely irreducible, since such a a representation would break up over some extension field of $K$ as a sum of Galois conjugate repesentations of the same degree.