Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Let G be a group with the lower central series
Let
where Σ runs over all non-negative integers a1, a2,…, an such that and is the aith symmetric power of the abelian group Gi/Gi+1 where
Let I (G) be the augmentation ideal of G in , the group ring of G over . Define the additive group Qn (G) = In (G) / In+1 (G) for any n ≥ 1. Then it is well known that Q1(G) ≅ W1(G) for any group G. Losey (4,5) proved that Q2(G) ≅ W2(G) for any finitely generated group G. Furthermore recently Tahara(12) proved that Q3(G) is a certain precisely defined quotient of W3(G) for any finite group G.