Linear groups and group rings.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2005.02.009MaRDI QIDQ2576976zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 29 December 2005

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2005.02.009

Bass cyclic units free nonabelian subgroups integral group rings linear groups

Group rings (16S34) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25)

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The authors' prime objective is to prove that the integral group ring \(\mathbb{Z} G\) of the non-Abelian finite group \(G\) of order prime to 6 contains two Bass cyclic units that generate a non-Abelian free group. A Bass cyclic unit of \(\mathbb{Z} G\) is an element of the form \[ (1+x+\cdots+x^{k-1})^m+d^{-1}(1-k^m)(1+x+\cdots+x^{d-1}), \] where \(x\in G\) has order \(d\), \(k\geq 1\) is prime to \(d\) and \(m\) is a multiple of the Euler function \(\varphi(d)\). The authors' technique is to modify the theory developed by \textit{J. Tits} [see J. Algebra 20, 250-270 (1972; Zbl 0236.20032)] to construct non-Abelian free subgroups of linear groups.

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