Products of free groups in the unit group of integral group rings
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Products of free groups in the unit group of integral group rings
zbMATH Open document ID: 0846.20006
author: Guilherme Leal
author: Eric Jespers
author: Ángel del Río
published in: Journal of Algebra
publication date: 1996-06-03T00:00:00Z
review text: The paper classifies those nilpotent finite groups \(G\) such that the group of units of \(\mathbb{Z} G\) has a subgroup \(U\) of finite index such that \(U\) is a direct product of non cyclic free groups. The authors prove that this phenomenon happens if and only if each Wedderburn component of the group ring over the rationals is either a field, the rational quaternions or a 2 by 2 matrix ring over the rational numbers. Using this, the authors give a complete list of those groups \(G\) as explicitly described quotients of a certain series of metabelian 2-groups. Finally the authors describe some properties of these groups \(G\) and their integral group rings.
reviewed by: Alexander Zimmermann
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20C05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20D15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16U60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20E07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16S34
zbMATH DE Number: 869798
zbMATH Keywords: subgroups of finite index
zbMATH Keywords: direct products of free groups
zbMATH Keywords: nilpotent finite groups
zbMATH Keywords: group of units
zbMATH Keywords: Wedderburn components
zbMATH Keywords: metabelian 2-groups
zbMATH Keywords: integral group rings
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: jabr.1996.0050
OpenAlex ID: W4212879930
DOI: 10.1006/JABR.1996.0050
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 869798