Kaplansky's idempotent conjecture for group rings

Let RR be an integral domain and let GG be a torsionfree group. An idempotent in the group ring RGRG is an element ee satisfying e2=ee^2=e. Kaplansky's conjecture. Every idempotent of RGRG is trivial, namely equal to 00 or 11. This conjecture predicts the absence of nontrivial idempotents in group rings of torsionfree groups. The source gives several positive cases, including results for word-hyperbolic groups and additional cases under Farrell–Jones hypotheses, but the general statement remains open.

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Arthur Bartels, Wolfgang Lueck and Holger Reich, “On the Farrell-Jones Conjecture and its applications”, arXiv:math/0703548 (2007).

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