Embedding group algebras into finite von Neumann regular rings

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Authors Peter A. Linnell

Publication date 20 October 2008

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2243

zbMATH Keywords

von Neumann regular ringsgroup algebrasultrafiltersunit-regular ringsgroup von Neumann algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

von Neumann regular rings and generalizations (associative algebraic aspects) (16E50) Group rings (16S34) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07)

Abstract: Let G be a group and let K be a field of characteristic zero. We shall prove that KG can be embedded into a von Neumann unit-regular ring. In the course of the proof, we shall obtain a result relevant to the Atiyah conjecture.

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