Trivial units for group rings over rings of algebraic integers
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Abstract:
Let $G$ be a nontrivial torsion group and $R$ be the ring of integers of an algebraic number field. The necessary and sufficient conditions are given under which $RG$ has only trivial units.References
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Additional Information
- Allen Herman
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
- Email: aherman@math.uregina.ca
- Yuanlin Li
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Brock University, St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1
- Email: yli@brocku.ca
- Received by editor(s): August 6, 2004
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 1, 2004
- Published electronically: July 18, 2005
- Additional Notes: This research was supported in part by Discovery Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
- Communicated by: Martin Lorenz
- © Copyright 2005 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 631-635
- MSC (2000): Primary 16S34; Secondary 16U60
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08018-4
- MathSciNet review: 2180878