Von Neumann regular group rings not representable as rings of continuous functions
von Neumann regular rings and generalizations (associative algebraic aspects) (16E50) Group rings (16S34) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Torsion groups, primary groups and generalized primary groups (20K10) Rings and algebras of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E25) Structure and classification of commutative topological algebras (46J40)
The authors prove the following theorem: Let \(G\) be an abelian \(p\)-group, \(K\) a field of characteristic \(\neq p\), and suppose that \(K\) does not contain a primitive \(p^ n\)th root of unity for some \(n\geq 1\). Suppose furthermore that \(G\) cannot be written as \(G_ 1\oplus G_ 2\) where \(G_ 1\) is countable and \(G_ 2\) has exponent \(\leq p^{n-1}\). Then \(K[G]\) is not representable as a ring of continuous functions on its spectrum.
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