The twisted group ring isomorphism problem over fields
Abstract
Similarly to how the classical group ring isomorphism problem asks, for a commutative ring , which information about a finite group is encoded in the group ring , the twisted group ring isomorphism problem asks which information about is encoded in all the twisted group rings of over . We investigate this problem over fields. We start with abelian groups and show how the results depend on the roots of unity in . In order to deal with non-abelian groups we construct a generalization of a Schur cover which exists also when is not an algebraically closed field, but still linearizes all projective representations of a group. We then show that groups from the celebrated example of Everett Dade which have isomorphic group algebras over any field can be distinguished by their twisted group algebras over finite fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1902.04281,
title = {The twisted group ring isomorphism problem over fields},
author = {L. Margolis and O. Schnabel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04281},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
25 pages. We discovered a mistake in Theorem 3.4 which was also Theorem 2(1). Corrected versions of the theorem are included