Kaplansky's unit conjecture for torsion-free group algebras

Let F\mathbb{F} be a field and GG a torsion-free group. A unit of the group algebra F[G]\mathbb{F}[G] is called trivial when it is a non-zero scalar multiple of a group element. Kaplansky's unit conjecture. The algebra F[G]\mathbb{F}[G] contains no non-trivial units; equivalently, every unit is a non-zero scalar multiple of an element of GG. 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 44, but does not resolve the conjecture in general.

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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).

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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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