The trivial idempotents conjecture for torsion-free group rings
The trivial idempotents conjecture for torsion-free group rings
Let be a field of characteristic zero and let be a torsion-free group. An idempotent in the group ring is an element satisfying . The trivial idempotents conjecture. Every idempotent in is trivial, meaning it is either or . This conjecture is refuted: a counterexample would give a zero-divisor in , 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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