Explicit free groups in division rings

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12230-1zbMath1317.16013MaRDI QIDQ5496290

Jairo Z. Goncalves, Donald S.Passman

Publication date: 30 January 2015

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

skew fields of fractions; free subgroups; free groups; commutators; division rings; multiplicative groups; nilpotent torsion-free groups; centre of division rings; Lichtman conjecture; second centre of nilpotent groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

16S10: Associative rings determined by universal properties (free algebras, coproducts, adjunction of inverses, etc.)

16S34: Group rings

20C07: Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects)

16K40: Infinite-dimensional and general division rings

20E05: Free nonabelian groups

16U60: Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras)

Related Items

Free unit groups in group rings and division rings: My collaboration with Don Passman, Free pairs of symmetric and unitary units in normal subgroups of a division ring, Free algebras and free groups in Ore extensions and free group algebras in division rings., Free symmetric and unitary pairs in the field of fractions of torsion-free nilpotent group algebras, Free pairs of symmetric elements in normal subgroups of division rings, Free groups in normal subgroups of the multiplicative group of a division ring.

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