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Partial Augmentations Power property: A Zassenhaus Conjecture related problem

Rings and Algebras 2018-11-05 v3 Group Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

Zassenhaus conjectured that any unit of finite order in the integral group ring ZG\mathbb{Z}G of a finite group GG is conjugate in the rational group algebra of GG to an element in ±G\pm G. We review the known weaker versions of this conjecture and introduce a new condition, on the partial augmentations of the powers of a unit of finite order in ZG\mathbb{Z}G, which is weaker than the Zassenhaus Conjecture but stronger than its other weaker versions. We prove that this condition is satisfied for units mapping to the identity modulo a nilpotent normal subgroup of GG. Moreover, we show that if the condition holds then the HeLP Method adopts a more friendly form and use this to prove the Zassenhaus Conjecture for a special class of groups.

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@article{arxiv.1706.04787,
  title  = {Partial Augmentations Power property: A Zassenhaus Conjecture related problem},
  author = {Leo Margolis and Ángel del Río},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04787},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

14 pages. A gap fixed and some typos corrected

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