scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1176592

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Authors Richard Rossmanith

Publication date 19 July 1998

zbMATH Keywords

centre-by-metabelian group algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings (16S34) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07)

Review text

We want to classify the centre-by-metabelian group algebras: If the underlying field has characteristic \(0\), the centre-by-metabelian group algebras are known to be Abelian; this is easily derived from the Passi-Passman-Sehgal theorem. The case of characteristic greater than 3 has been studied by R. K. Sharma and J. B. Srivastava. Their result is that here there also are no centre-by-metabelian group algebras except the Abelian ones. In characteristic 3, the situation is more interesting since here there are centre-by-metabelian group algebras which are neither metabelian nor Lie nilpotent. Their classification actually was published twice in the Journal of Algebra, namely by B. Külshammer and R. K. Sharma and by M. Sahai and J. B. Srivastava; both parties were working independently, using different methods. As very often in group or ring theory, the problem for the characteristic 2 case is the least handy one. Its solution is the main result of the present thesis. Theorem 4: Let \(G\) be a group, and let \(\mathbb{F}\) be a field of characteristic 2. Then \(\mathbb{F} G\) is centre-by-metabelian if and only if one of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) The order of \(G'\) divides 4. (ii) \(G'\) is central and elementary Abelian of order 8. (iii) \(G\) acts dihedrally on \(G'\cong Z_2\times Z_4\), and \(C_G(G')'\subseteq\Phi(G')\). (iv) \(G\) contains an Abelian subgroup of index 2.

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