Which alternating and symmetric groups are unit groups?

DOI10.1142/S0219498813501144MaRDI QIDQ5414201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher Davis, Tommy Occhipinti

Publication date 2 May 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0143

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupsgroup algebrasgroup ringssymmetric groupsunit groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings (16S34) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: We prove there is no ring with unit group isomorphic to S_n for n geq 5 and that there is no ring with unit group isomorphic to A_n for n geq 5, n eq 8. We give examples of rings with unit groups isomorphic to S_1, S_2, S_3, S_4, A_1, A_2, A_3, A_4, and A_8. We expect our methods to work similarly for other groups with trivial center; in particular, we plan to consider other simple groups in later work.

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• Fuchs’ problem for linear groups
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• Magma

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