English

The twisted group ring isomorphism problem over fields

Rings and Algebras 2021-01-06 v3 Group Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

Similarly to how the classical group ring isomorphism problem asks, for a commutative ring RR, which information about a finite group GG is encoded in the group ring RGRG, the twisted group ring isomorphism problem asks which information about GG is encoded in all the twisted group rings of GG over RR. We investigate this problem over fields. We start with abelian groups and show how the results depend on the roots of unity in RR. In order to deal with non-abelian groups we construct a generalization of a Schur cover which exists also when RR 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.

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@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

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