Partial augmentations power property: a Zassenhaus conjecture related problem (Q2421348)

Let $G$ be a finite group. Denote as $U(\mathbb{Z}(G)$ the group of units and denote as $V(G)$ the set of elements of $U(\mathbb{Z}(G)$ such that their coefficients coefficients sum up to 1. The Zassenhaus conjecture states the following: let $u\in V(G)$ be a unit then there exists a unit $x$ in the rational group algebra of $G$ and an element $g\in G$ such that $x^{-1}ux = g$. The authors note that ``the Zassenhaus Conjecture has been proven for some classes of solvable groups, such as nilpotent groups, cyclic-by-abelian groups, or groups which possess a normal Sylow subgroup with abelian complement [...] Recently a metabelian counterexample to the Zassenhaus Conjecture has been obtained'' by the authors of the present paper. In the paper under review the authors introduce some weaker hypothesis and prove that it ``is satisfied for units mapping to the identity modulo a nilpotent normal subgroup of G. Moreover, they show that if the this weak hypothesis holds then the HeLP Method adopts a more friendly form and use this to prove the Zassenhaus Conjecture for a special class of groups.''