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Nilpotent Decomposition in Integral Group Rings

Rings and Algebras 2022-10-07 v3

Abstract

A finite group GG is said to have the nilpotent decomposition property (ND) if for every nilpotent element α\alpha of the integral group ring Z[G]\mathbb{Z}[G] one has that αe\alpha e also belong to Z[G]\mathbb{Z}[G], for every primitive central idempotent ee of the rational group algebra Q[G]\mathbb{Q}[G]. Results of Hales, Passi and Wilson, Liu and Passman show that this property is fundamental in the investigations of the multiplicative Jordan decomposition of integral group rings. If GG and all its subgroups have ND then Liu and Passman showed that GG has property SSN, that is, for subgroups HH, YY and NN of GG, if NHN\lhd H and YHY\subseteq H then NYN\subseteq Y or YNYN is normal in HH; and such groups have been described. In this article, we study the nilpotent decomposition property in integral group rings and we classify finite SSN groups GG such that the rational group algebra Q[G]\mathbb{Q}[G] has only one Wedderburn component which is not a division ring.

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@article{arxiv.2010.07957,
  title  = {Nilpotent Decomposition in Integral Group Rings},
  author = {Eric Jespers and Wei-Liang Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.07957},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Postprint version. In the second paragraph of Section 6, the statement "U(G)/pU(G) is a torsion group" is corrected by "U(G)/pU(G) is generated by torsion images of unipotents." Some minor typos are fixed

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