On the automorphism group of the p-adic group ring of a metacyclic p- group (Q793820)

For an arbitrary ring R denote by Autcent(R) the group of all automorphisms which fix each element c in the center of R. Denote by In(R) the group of inner automorphisms of R and by \(Outcent(R)\) the factor group \(Autcent(R)/In(R).\) In the present paper the author investigates the group ring \(Z_ pG\) where \(Z_ p\) is the ring of p- adic integers and \(G=G(p,n,m,r)\) is the metacyclic group generated by \(\sigma\) and \(\tau\) with relations \(\sigma^{p^ n}=\tau^{p^ m}=1\) and \(\tau \sigma \tau^{-1}=\sigma^{1+p^ r}.\) The main result is the following theorem: If \(n\leq 2r\) then \(Outcent(Z_ pG(p,n,m,r))=1.\) As a corollary the author remarks that \(Outcent(Z_ qG(p,n,m,r))=1\) for any prime q.