Trivial Units for Group Rings with G-adapted Coefficient Rings

Autor: M. M. Parmenter, Allen Herman, Yuanlin Li
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Canadian Mathematical Bulletin. 48:80-89
ISSN: 1496-4287
0008-4395
DOI: 10.4153/cmb-2005-007-1
Popis: For each finite group G for which the integral group ring ℤG has only trivial units, we give ring-theoretic conditions for a commutative ring R under which the group ring RG has nontrivial units. Several examples of rings satisfying the conditions and rings not satisfying the conditions are given. In addition, we extend a well-known result for fields by showing that if R is a ring of finite characteristic and RG has only trivial units, then G has order at most 3.
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