Oriented involutions and skew-symmetric elements in group rings.

DOI10.1142/S0219498812501319zbMATH Open1273.16025arXiv1108.4648OpenAlexW2169601018MaRDI QIDQ4904438FDOQ4904438

Authors: Edgar G. Goodaire, C. Polcino Milies 

Publication date: 29 January 2013

Published in: Journal of Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a group with involution * and $sigmacolonGopm1$ a group homomorphism. The map $sharp$ that sends $alpha=sumalph{a}_{g}g$ in a group ring $RG$ to $alph{a}^{sharp}=sumsigma(g)alph{a}_g{g}^{\ast }$ is an involution of $RG$ called an emph{oriented group involution}. An element $alphainRG$ is emph{symmetric} if $alph{a}^{sharp}=alpha$ and emph{skew-symmetric} if $alph{a}^{sharp}=-alpha$. The sets of symmetric and skew-symmetric elements have received a lot of attention in the special cases that * is the inverse map on $G$ and/or $sigma$ is identically 1, but not in general. In this paper, we determine the conditions under which the sets of elements that are symmetric and skew-symmetric, respectively, relative to a general oriented involution form subrings of $RG$. The work on symmetric elements is a modification and correction of previous work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4648

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zbMATH Keywords

group ringsrings with involutionskew-symmetric elementssymmetric elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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