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Fuchs' problem for endomorphisms of nonabelian groups

Group Theory 2024-08-16 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

In 1960, L\'{a}szl\'{o} Fuchs posed the problem of determining which groups GG are realizable as the group of units in some ring RR. In \cite{chebolu2022fuchs}, we investigated the following variant of Fuchs' problem, for abelian groups: which groups GG are realized by a ring RR where every group endomorphism of GG is induced by a ring endomorphism of RR? Such groups are called fully realizable. In this paper, we answer the aforementioned question for several families of nonabelian groups: symmetric, dihedral, quaternion, alternating, and simple groups; almost cyclic pp-groups; and groups whose Sylow 22-subgroup is either cyclic or normal and abelian. We construct three infinite families of fully realizable nonabelian groups using iterated semidirect products.

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@article{arxiv.2408.08195,
  title  = {Fuchs' problem for endomorphisms of nonabelian groups},
  author = {Sunil K. Chebolu and Keir Lockridge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.08195},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

27 pages, accepted for publication in the Journal of Algebra

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