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Integral Group Rings of Some p-Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jürgen Ritter  and
Sudarshan Sehgal
Jürgen Ritter
Affiliation:
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, West Germany
Sudarshan Sehgal
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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1. Introduction. The group of units, , of the integral group ring of a finite non-abelian group G is difficult to determine. For the symmetric group of order 6 and the dihedral group of order 8 this was done by Hughes-Pearson [3] and Polcino Milies [5] respectively. Allen and Hobby [1] have computed , where A4 is the alternating group on 4 letters. Recently, Passman-Smith [6] gave a nice characterization of where D2p is the dihedral group of order 2p and p is an odd prime. In an earlier paper [2] Galovich-Reiner-Ullom computed when G is a metacyclic group of order pq with p a prime and q a divisor of (p – 1). In this note, using the fibre product decomposition as in [2], we give a description of the units of the integral group rings of the two noncommutative groups of order p3, p an odd prime. In fact, for these groups we describe the components of ZG in the Wedderburn decomposition of QG.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1982 , pp. 233 - 246
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

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