Free Groups in Subnormal Subgroups and the Residual Nilpotence of the Group of Units of Groups Rings

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jairo Z. Gonçalves

AbstractLet KG be the group ring of the group G over the field K and U(KG) its unit group. When G is finite we derive conditions which imply that every noncentral subnormal subgroup of U(KG) contains a free group of rank two. We also show that residual nilpotence of U(KG) coincides with nilpotence, this being no longer true if G is infinite.We can answer partially the following question: when is G sub-normal in U(KG)?

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Jespers ◽  
M. M. Parmenter

LetGbe a finite group,(ZG) the group of units of the integral group ring ZGand1(ZG) the subgroup of units of augmentation 1. In this paper, we are primarily concerned with the problem of describing constructively(ZG) for particular groupsG.This has been done for a small number of groups (see [11] for an excellent survey), and most recently Jespers and Leal [3] described(ZG) for several 2-groups. While the situation is clear for all groups of order less than 16, not all groups of order 16 were discussed in their paper. Our main aim is to complete the description of(ZG) for all groups of order 16. Since the structure of the unit group of abelian groups is very well known (see for example [10]), we are only interested in the non-abelian case.


2017 ◽  
Vol 163 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. YU. OLSHANSKII

AbstractIn this paper, the author (1) compare subnormal closures of finite sets in a free group F; (2) obtains the limit for the series of subnormal closures of a single element in F; (3) proves that the exponential growth rate (exp.g.r.) $\lim_{n\to \infty}\sqrt[n]{g_H(n)}$, where gH(n) is the growth function of a subgroup H with respect to a finite free basis of F, exists for any subgroup H of the free group F; (4) gives sharp estimates from below for the exp.g.r. of subnormal subgroups in free groups; and (5) finds the cogrowth of the subnormal closures of free generators.


2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 409-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
TSUNEKAZU NISHINAKA

We prove that every group ring of a non-abelian locally free group which is the union of an ascending sequence of free groups is primitive. In particular, every group ring of a countable non-abelian locally free group is primitive. In addition, by making use of the result, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for group rings of ascending HNN extensions of free groups to be primitive, which extends the main result in [Group rings of proper ascending HNN extensions of countably infinite free groups are primitive, J. Algebra317 (2007) 581–592] to the general cardinality case.


1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jairo Zacarias Goncalves

Let KG be the group ring of the group G over the infinite field K, and let U(KG) be its group of units. If G is torsion, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a finite subgroup H of G to be either normal or subnormal in U(KG). Actually, if H is subnormal in U(KG), we can handle not only the case H finite, but the precise assumptions depend on the characteristic of K.


1949 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall Hall

This paper has as its chief aim the establishment of two formulae associated with subgroups of finite index in free groups. The first of these (Theorem 3.1) gives an expression for the total length of the free generators of a subgroup U of the free group Fr with r generators. The second (Theorem 5.2) gives a recursion formula for calculating the number of distinct subgroups of index n in Fr.Of some independent interest are two theorems used which do not involve any finiteness conditions. These are concerned with ways of determining a subgroup U of F.


1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Gaboriau ◽  
G. Levitt ◽  
M. Lustig

Let α be an automorphism of a free group of rank n. The Scott conjecture, proved by Bestvina-Handel, asserts that the fixed subgroup of α has rank at most n. We give a short alternative proof of this result using R-trees.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 590-604
Author(s):  
M. Fazeel Anwar ◽  
Mairaj Bibi ◽  
Muhammad Saeed Akram

In \cite{levin}, Levin conjectured that every equation is solvable over a torsion free group. In this paper we consider a nonsingular equation $g_{1}tg_{2}t g_{3}t g_{4} t g_{5} t g_{6} t^{-1} g_{7} t g_{8}t \\ g_{9}t^{-1} = 1$ of length $9$ and show that it is solvable over torsion free groups modulo some exceptional cases.


2006 ◽  
Vol 05 (06) ◽  
pp. 781-791
Author(s):  
ALLEN HERMAN ◽  
YUANLIN LI

Let G be a torsion group and let R be a G-adapted ring. In this note we study the question of when the group ring RG has only trivial torsion units. It turns out that the above question is closely related to the question of when the quaternion group ring RQ8 has only trivial torsion units. We first give a ring-theoretic condition on R which determines exactly when the quaternion group ring has only trivial torsion units. Then several equivalent conditions for RG to have only trivial torsion units are provided. We also investigate the hypercenter of the unit group of a G-adapted group ring RG, and show that when R satisfies the torsion trivial involution condition, this hypercenter is not equal to the center if and only if G is a Q*-group.


2015 ◽  
Vol 159 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
MORITZ RODENHAUSEN ◽  
RICHARD D. WADE

AbstractWe refine Cohen and Lustig's description of centralisers of Dehn twists of free groups. We show that the centraliser of a Dehn twist of a free group has a subgroup of finite index that has a finite classifying space. We describe an algorithm to find a presentation of the centraliser. We use this algorithm to give an explicit presentation for the centraliser of a Nielsen automorphism in Aut(Fn). This gives restrictions to actions of Aut(Fn) on CAT(0) spaces.


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