Normal Complements of the Trivial Units in the Unit Group of Some Integral Group Rings (Q4803365)

Let \(G\) be a finite group, \(\mathbb{Z} G\) its integral group ring and \(V(\mathbb{Z} G)\) be the group of units in \(\mathbb{Z} G\) with augmentation 1. Of course, \(G\) is a subgroup of \(V(\mathbb{Z} G)\). Some groups \(G\), such as the dihedral group of order 6 and 8 admit a normal complement in \(V(\mathbb{Z} G)\). In the paper under review the authors determine all possible normal complements in these cases in a very explicit way, and surprisingly it turns out that there are exactly 4 normal complements in case of the dihedral group of order 6, three of them being free groups, one with 2-torsion. There are 8 normal complements in case of the dihedral group of order 8, all of which being free of rank 3. The proof in the first case uses a result of Parmenter and the second author describing the unit group in terms of generators and relations, and the second result is proved using the corresponding result of Leal and the second author in that case.