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On schurity of dihedral groups

Group Theory 2025-02-20 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

A finite group GG is called a Schur group if every SS-ring over GG is schurian, i.e. associated in a natural way with a subgroup of Sym(G)Sym(G) that contains all right translations. One of the crucial questions in the SS-ring theory is the question on schurity of nonabelian groups, in particular, on existence of an infinite family of nonabelian Schur groups. In this paper, we study schurity of dihedral groups. We show that any generalized dihedral Schur group is dihedral and obtain necessary conditions of schurity for dihedral groups. Further, we prove that a dihedral group of order 2p2p, where pp is a Fermat prime or prime of the form p=4q+1p=4q+1, where qq is also prime, is Schur. Towards this result, we prove nonexistence of a difference set in a cyclic group of order p13p\neq 13 and classify all SS-rings over some dihedral groups.

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@article{arxiv.2308.14209,
  title  = {On schurity of dihedral groups},
  author = {Grigory Ryabov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14209},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

24 pages. This version substantially extends the previous one

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