Kaplansky's idempotent conjecture for group rings
Kaplansky's idempotent conjecture for group rings
Let be an integral domain and let be a torsionfree group. An idempotent in the group ring is an element satisfying . Kaplansky's conjecture. Every idempotent of is trivial, namely equal to or . 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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