The trivial idempotents conjecture for torsion-free group rings

Let k\Bbbk be a field of characteristic zero and let GG be a torsion-free group. An idempotent in the group ring k[G]\Bbbk[G] is an element pp satisfying p2=pp^2=p. The trivial idempotents conjecture. Every idempotent in k[G]\Bbbk[G] is trivial, meaning it is either 00 or 11. This conjecture is refuted: a counterexample would give a zero-divisor in k[G]\Bbbk[G], and the source identifies this with a counterexample to Kaplansky's zero-divisor problem.

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Holger Reich and Marco Varisco, “Algebraic K-theory, assembly maps, controlled algebra, and trace methods”, arXiv:1702.02218 (2018).

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