Kaplansky's unit conjecture for torsion-free group algebras
Kaplansky's unit conjecture for torsion-free group algebras
Let be a field and a torsion-free group. A unit of the group algebra is called trivial when it is a non-zero scalar multiple of a group element. Kaplansky's unit conjecture. The algebra contains no non-trivial units; equivalently, every unit is a non-zero scalar multiple of an element of . This is a central open problem in the theory of group algebras. The paper proves lower bounds on the support of an inverse when one factor has support of size , but does not resolve the conjecture in general.
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Primary source
Alireza Abdollahi and Fatemeh Jafari, “Zero divisor and unit elements with support of size 4 in group algebras of torsion free groups”, arXiv:1709.08204 (2017).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1705.00152, arXiv:1612.00934.
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