Gregory T. Lee: Group Identities on Units and Symmetric Units of Group Rings, Gebunden
Group Identities on Units and Symmetric Units of Group Rings
- Publisher:
- Springer, 11/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783032046192
- Item number:
- 12381455
- Volume:
- 276 Pages
- Edition number:
- 25002
- Ausgabe:
- Second Edition 2025
- Weight:
- 630 g
- Format:
- 241 x 160 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 20.11.2025
- Series:
- Algebra and Applications - volume 33
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
This book presents the results for arbitrary group identities, as well as the conditions under which the unit group or the set of symmetric units satisfies several particular group identities of interest. Let FG be the group ring of a group G over a field F. Write U(FG) for the group of units of FG. It is an important problem to determine the conditions under which U(FG) satisfies a group identity. In the mid-1990s, a conjecture of Hartley was verified, namely, if U(FG) satisfies a group identity, and G is torsion, then FG satisfies a polynomial identity. Necessary and sufficient conditions for U(FG) to satisfy a group identity soon followed.
Since the late 1990s, many papers have been devoted to the study of the symmetric units; that is, those units u satisfying u* = u, where * is the involution on FG defined by sending each element of G to its inverse. The conditions under which these symmetric units satisfy a group identity have now been determined.
