Integral group ring automorphisms without Zassenhaus factorization

Publication date 1 January 2003

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abelian Sylow subgroups central automorphisms finite groups integral group rings normalized automorphisms ring automorphisms Sylow towers Zassenhaus factorizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Automorphisms and endomorphisms (16W20) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Integral representations of finite groups (20C10)

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Let \(\mathbb{Z} G\) be the integral group ring of a finite group \(G\). An automorphism \(\alpha\) of the ring \(\mathbb{Z} G\) is said to have a Zassenhaus factorization if it is a composition of an automorphism of \(G\) (extended to a ring automorphism) and a central automorphism (fixing the center of \(\mathbb{Z} G\) elementwise). In this paper the author proves that for a group \(G\) of order 144 there is a normalized (i.e. augmentation preserving) automorphism \(\alpha\) of \(\mathbb{Z} G\) which has no Zassenhaus factorization and \(\alpha\) can be chosen to have finite order. Moreover, there is a group \(G\) of order 1200 with Abelian Sylow subgroups and Sylow tower, such that \(\mathbb{Z} G\) has a normalized automorphism which has no Zassenhaus factorization. These results are counterexamples of a conjecture of H. Zassenhaus.

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