p-Adic group rings with nilpotent unit groups

Group Rings with Solvable «-engel Unit Groups'

Let KG be the group ring of a group G over a field of characteristic p > 0, p ^ 2, 3. Suppose G contains no element of order p (if p > 0). Group algebras KG with unit group U(KG) solvable and n-Engel are characterized. Let ATG be the group ring of a group G over a field K of characteristic p > 0 and let U(KG) denote its group of units. Several authors including Bateman [1], Bateman and Coleman ...

Isomorphisms of p-adic group rings

A long-standing problem, first posed by Graham Higman [15] and later by Brauer [4] is the “isomorphism problem for integral group rings.” Given finite groups G and H, is it true that ZG = ZH implies G 2: H? Many authors have worked on this question, but progress has been difficult [30]. Perhaps the best positive result was that of Whitcomb in 1968 [37], who showed that the implication G = H hol...

Group Rings over the p-Adic Integers

ADMISSIBLE NILPOTENT COADJOINT ORBITS OF p-ADIC REDUCTIVE LIE GROUPS

The orbit method conjectures a close relationship between the set of irreducible unitary representations of a Lie group G, and admissible coadjoint orbits in the dual of the Lie algebra. We define admissibility for nilpotent coadjoint orbits of p-adic reductive Lie groups, and compute the set of admissible orbits for a range of examples. We find that for unitary, symplectic, orthogonal, general...

Central Units of Integral Group Rings of Nilpotent Groups

In this paper a finite set of generators is given for a subgroup of finite index in the group of central units of the integral group ring of a finitely generated nilpotent group. In this paper we construct explicitly a finite set of generators for a subgroup of finite index in the centre Z(U(ZG)) of the unit group U(ZG) of the integral group ring ZG of a finitely generated nilpotent group G. Ri...