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Rings with an elementary abelian $p$-group of units

Commutative Algebra 2023-01-02 v2 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

What are all rings RR for which RR^* (the group of invertible elements of RR under multiplication) is an elementary abelian pp-group? We answer this question for finite-dimensional commutative kk-algebras, finite commutative rings, modular group algebras, and path algebras. Two interesting byproducts of this work are a characterization of Mersenne primes and a connection to Dedekind's problem.

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@article{arxiv.2112.03853,
  title  = {Rings with an elementary abelian $p$-group of units},
  author = {Sunil K. Chebolu and Jeremy Corry and Elizabeth Grimm and Andrew Hatfield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03853},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Journal of Commutative Algebra