Questions tagged [group-algebras]
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Units in the group ring over fours group after Gardam
Giles Gardam recently found (arXiv link) that Kaplansky's unit conjecture fails on a virtually abelian torsion-free group, over the field $\mathbb{F}_2$.
This conjecture asserted that if $\Gamma$ is a ...
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Does GL_n(Z) have a noetherian group ring?
Has the (left, right, 2-sided) noetherian property of the integral group ring of arithmetic groups like $GL_n(Z)$ been considered in the literature?
Motivation: a recent trend has been to study "...
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About the classification of commutative and of cocommutative, fin. dim. Hopf algebras
I want to prove that the cocommutative finite dimensional Hopf algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero are group algebras (for some finite group) and that the commutative f....
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Is this sum of cycles invertible in $\mathbb QS_n$?
I am interested the following element of the group algebra $\mathbb{Q}S_n$:
\begin{align}
\phi_n=2e+(1\ 2)+(1\ 2\ 3)+\dotsb+(1\ldots n)
\end{align}
where $e$ is the identity permutation. My question ...
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Is the group von Neumann algebra construction functorial?
Let $G$ be a group and $CG$ the complex group algebra over the field $C$ of complex number. The group von Neumann algebra $NG$ is the completion of $CG$ wrt weak operator norm in $B(l^2(G))$, the set ...
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Units of group algebra of dihedral group
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Can we fully describe the group of units (=invertible elements) $(KG)^\times$ of the group algebra $KG$ for $K=\mathbf{F}_2$, $G=D_\infty=\langle s,t|s^2=t^2=1\rangle$, the infinite ...
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The functoriality of group C* algebra structure
Let $G$ and $H$ be discrete groups and $f:G \rightarrow H$ be any homomorphism of these groups. I have three questions about it:
1) How to prove the functoriality of the construction of universal $C^*...