Computing Whitehead groups using genetic bases

Abstract: We combine results about Whitehead groups of finite groups with results about genetic bases of finite

p

-groups to compute the Whitehead groups of some metacyclic

p

-groups. Let

C_{p^{n}}

denote a cyclic group of order

p^{n}

for

p

an odd prime and

n

a positive integer. We present a conjecture for the torsion part of the Whitehead group of

C_{p^{n}} i m e s C_{p^{n}}

and we show that torsion part of the Whitehead group of the semidirect product of

C_{p^{n - 1}}

by

C_{p}

is isomorphic to

C_{p}^{(n - 2) (p - 1)}

. The techniques we use can be applied to any abelian

p

-group and to many other

p

-groups for

p

odd.

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