Jespers–Sun's nilpotent decomposition conjecture for integral group rings
Jespers–Sun's nilpotent decomposition conjecture for integral group rings
Let be a finite group. Say that has nilpotent decomposition (ND) if, for every nilpotent element and every central idempotent , one has . Write the Wedderburn–Artin decomposition as
where each is a division algebra; has at most one matrix component when at most one of the integers is greater than .
Jespers–Sun's conjecture. A finite group has ND if and only if has at most one matrix component.
The implication from having at most one matrix component to ND is immediate from the decomposition, since a division algebra has no nontrivial unipotent elements. The converse is the open direction, concerning whether ND can occur when multiple simple components have nontrivial matrix size.
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Primary source
Geoffrey Janssens and Leo Margolis, “On integral decomposition of unipotent elements in integral group rings”, arXiv:2307.14820 (2025).
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