Group algebras with centrally metabelian unit groups

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT_40296_14MaRDI QIDQ677848zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Meena Sahai

Publication date 7 September 1997

Published in Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/41264

zbMATH Keywords

centrally metabelian unit groupsfinite groupsgroup 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 finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Engel conditions (20F45)

Review text

The paper determines the finite groups \(G\) having the property that the unit group \(U\) of their group algebra \(KG\) over a field \(K\) of positive characteristic \(\neq 2\) is centrally metabelian, meaning that the second derived term \(\delta^2U\) is central in \(U\). This holds, for example, whenever \(KG\) is Lie centrally metabelian (\(G\) may even be infinite), and \textit{M. Sahai} and \textit{J. B. Srivastava} [J. Algebra 187, No. 2, 7-15 (1997)]; \textit{R. K. Sharma} and \textit{J. B. Srivastava} [J. Algebra 151, 476-486 (1992; Zbl 0788.16019)] have provided necessary and sufficient conditions for \(KG\) being so. In the paper under review the full list of groups \(G\) is shown to consist of all abelian \(G\) and, moreover, in characteristic 3, groups \(G\) with commutator subgroup of order 3. The proofs are rather computational.

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