Unit groups of group rings

Authors Ashwani K. Bhandari, Inder Bir S. Passi

Publication date 22 March 2000

group identities group rings groups of units integral group rings Lie-nilpotent rings nilpotency classes residual solvability residually nilpotent groups torsion elements

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

Review text

Let \(U(RG)\) denote the group of units of the group ring of a group \(G\) over a commutative ring \(R\), with identity. Over the last three decades, extensive research was done on the structure of this group, mainly determining necessary and sufficient conditions on \(R\) and \(G\) in order that \(U(RG)\) has a specific group-theoretic property. As examples of these properties, we may quote being solvable, nilpotent, residually solvable, residually nilpotent, being \(FC\), the set of torsion elements forming a subgroup, etc. The paper under review is a survey of developments obtained in recent years and refers the reader to other sources for earlier results. It is divided in two sections. In the first part of the paper, the authors discuss the structure of \(U(KG)\) when \(K\) is a field. After a general view of the state of the art in this case, they include some results of their own and of Shalev regarding the class of nilpotency of \(U(KG)\) in the case when this group is nilpotent and then give conditions for residual solvability for some particular classes of fields of coefficients. The section also includes a brief discussion of results on a conjecture of Hartley on the existence of a group identity for \(U(KG)\). The second section is devoted to describe similar problems for integral group rings. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0911.00010].

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