On the lower bound of the derived length of the unit group of a nontorsion group algebra

DOI10.1007/S10468-019-09855-XMaRDI QIDQ2180616zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tibor Juhász, Gregory T. Lee, Sudarshan K. Sehgal, Ernesto Spinelli

Publication date 14 May 2020

Published in Algebras and Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10468-019-09855-x

zbMATH Keywords

derived lengthgroup ringunit group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings (16S34) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60)

Review text

Suppose $G$ is a non-abelian nilpotent group which contains a $p$-element and $F$ is a field of characteristic $p\not= 2$ such that the unit group $U(FG)$ of the group ring $FG$ is solvable. The paper under review provides a lower bound for the derived length of $U(FG)$ and the main result (Theorem 1) states the following: Let $F$ be a field of characteristic $p>2$ and $G$ a nilpotent group such that the commutator group $G'$ is not a finite $p$-group, but $FG$ is modular. If $U(FG)$ is solvable, then the derived length of $U(FG)$ is strictly greater than $log_2(p + 1)$. Two similar results, namely Theorems 2 and 3, are proved when $G'$ is a finite $p$-group. The presented results correct recent ones in the same subject obtained by \textit{G. T. Lee} et al. in [Algebr. Represent. Theory 17, No. 5, 1597--1601 (2014; Zbl 1309.16025)] when $G$ is non-torsion and $G'$ is a finite $p$-group.

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