The conjecture that locally indicable groups are Lewin groups

A group GG is a Lewin group if, for every field FF with a GG-action, the crossed product FGF\ast G admits a Hughes-free FGF\ast G-division ring that is its universal division ring of fractions. Locally indicable groups conjecture. Every locally indicable group is a Lewin group, and in particular a Hughes group.

The conjecture links local indicability with the universal division-ring-of-fractions property. The source attributes it to Jaikin-Zapirain; its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Grigori Avramidi and Wolfgang Lueck, “L^2-Betti numbers in prime characteristic and a conjecture of Wise”, arXiv:2602.04655 (2026).

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