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Group Rings with Units of Bounded Exponent over the Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sônia P. Coelho*
Affiliation:
Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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Let KG be the group ring of a group G over a field K, and U its group of units. Given a group H, we shall denote by ξ(H) the center of H and by T(H) the set of all its torsion elements.

The following question appears in [5, p. 231]: When is Un ⊂ ξ (U), for some n? It was considered by G. Cliff and S. K. Sehgal in [1], where G is assumed to be a solvable group. A complete answer at characteristic zero is given there. Also they obtain partial results at characteristic p ≠ 0, with certain restrictions on the exponent n.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

References

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