Whitehead groups and the Bass conjecture (Q1407696)

The authors of this paper investigate some \(K\)-groups of elementary amenable groups. Among other things, it is proved that if \(k\) is a field of prime characteristic and \(\Gamma\) is an elementary amenable group, then \(K_0 (k\Gamma) \otimes {\mathbb Q}\) is generated by the images of \(K_0 (kG)\) as \(G\) runs over the finite subgroups of \(\Gamma\). Using this result, the authors prove that the strong Bass conjecture is true for elementary amenable groups.