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On the Prime Graph Question for Integral Group Rings of Conway simple groups

Rings and Algebras 2019-02-13 v2 Group Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

The Prime Graph Question for integral group rings asks if it is true that if the normalized unit group of the integral group ring of a finite group GG contains an element of order pqpq, for some primes pp and qq, also GG contains an element of that order. We answer this question for the three Conway sporadic simple groups after reducing it to a combinatorial question about Young tableaus and Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. This finishes work of V. Bovdi, A. Konovalov and S. Linton.

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@article{arxiv.1711.11322,
  title  = {On the Prime Graph Question for Integral Group Rings of Conway simple groups},
  author = {Leo Margolis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.11322},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Combinatorial proofs extended and clarified. 14 pages