Commutative twisted group algebras

Publication date 16 January 2002

Published in Doklady Bolgarskoĭ Akademii Nauk (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abelian \(p\)-groups commutative twisted group rings isomorphism problem Sylow subgroups Ulm-Kaplansky invariants unit groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings (16S34) Twisted and skew group rings, crossed products (16S35) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Torsion groups, primary groups and generalized primary groups (20K10)

Review text

The authors announce some results on the \(p\)-Sylow subgroup \(S(R_tG)\) of the unit group \(U(R_tG)\) of a commutative twisted group algebra \(R_tG\) of an Abelian group \(G\) over a unitary commutative ring \(R\). Although \(U(R_tG)\) and \(S(R_tG)\) are important objects in the theory of commutative twisted group rings, their description, up to isomorphism, is only given in a few partial cases.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe first result of the paper generalizes the well known fact that, for a free Abelian group \(G\), the \(R\)-algebra \(R_tG\) is isomorphic to the ordinary group algebra \(RG\) and establishes a similar result when \(G\) is a \(p\)-group and \(R^*\) is a \(p\)-divisible group and when \(R^*\) is a divisible group. The second result gives that if \(R_tG\) and \(R_{t_1}H\) are \(R\)-isomorphic, then the group algebras \(KG\) and \(KH\) are isomorphic for a suitable algebraically closed field \(K\). Then the authors describe the Ulm-Kaplansky invariants of \(S(R_tG)\) in the important case when \(\text{char }R=p\) and the \(p\)-component \(G_p\) of \(G\) is trivial. Further, they introduce the notion of unitly \(p\)-perfect ring as a ring \(R\) of prime characteristic \(p\) and with a \(p\)-divisible group \(R^*\). The authors calculate the Ulm-Kaplansky invariants and the maximal divisible subgroups of \(S(R_tG)\) for unitly \(p\)-perfect rings \(R\). As a corollary they obtain that for a \(p\)-group \(G\) and a unitly \(p\)-perfect ring \(R\), the \(R\)-isomorphism of \(R_tG\) and \(R_{t_1}H\) implies the \(R\)-isomorphism of \(RG\) and \(RH\).

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