Oriented involutions and skew-symmetric elements in group rings.

DOI10.1142/S0219498812501319MaRDI QIDQ4904438zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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