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Integral Group Rings with Nilpotent Unit Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

César Polcino Milies*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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Let R be a ring with unit element and G a finite group. We denote by RG the group ring of the group G over R and by U(RG) the group of units of this group ring.

The study of the nilpotency of U(RG) has been the subject of several papers.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1976

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