Abstract
It is shown that Witt's basic dimension formula and a more recent result of Klyachko imply each other. Then Klyachko's identities between certain idempotents in the group ring of Sn are supplemented by identities involving Wever's classical idempotent. This leads to a direct proof of Klyachko's theorem (and hence Witt's formula), avoiding any commutator collecting process. Furthermore, this approach explains why the Witt dimensions are numbers which otherwise occur when “counting necklaces”.
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