Units in group rings and blocks of Klein four or dihedral defect

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Autori principali: Eisele, Florian, Margolis, Leo
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author Eisele, Florian
Margolis, Leo
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Margolis, Leo
contents We obtain restrictions on units of even order in the integral group ring $\mathbb{Z}G$ of a finite group $G$ by studying their actions on the reductions modulo $4$ of lattices over the $2$-adic group ring $\mathbb{Z}_2G$. This improves the "lattice method" which considers reductions modulo primes $p$, but is of limited use for $p=2$ essentially due to the fact that $1\equiv -1 \ (\textrm{mod }2)$. Our methods yield results in cases where $\mathbb Z_2 G$ has blocks whose defect groups are Klein four groups or dihedral groups of order $8$. This allows us to disprove the existence of units of order $2p$ for almost simple groups with socle $\operatorname{PSL}(2,p^f)$ where $p^f\equiv \pm 3 \ (\textrm{mod } 8)$ and to answer the Prime Graph Question affirmatively for many such groups.
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spellingShingle Units in group rings and blocks of Klein four or dihedral defect
Eisele, Florian
Margolis, Leo
Rings and Algebras
Group Theory
Representation Theory
16U60, 20C05, 20C11
We obtain restrictions on units of even order in the integral group ring $\mathbb{Z}G$ of a finite group $G$ by studying their actions on the reductions modulo $4$ of lattices over the $2$-adic group ring $\mathbb{Z}_2G$. This improves the "lattice method" which considers reductions modulo primes $p$, but is of limited use for $p=2$ essentially due to the fact that $1\equiv -1 \ (\textrm{mod }2)$. Our methods yield results in cases where $\mathbb Z_2 G$ has blocks whose defect groups are Klein four groups or dihedral groups of order $8$. This allows us to disprove the existence of units of order $2p$ for almost simple groups with socle $\operatorname{PSL}(2,p^f)$ where $p^f\equiv \pm 3 \ (\textrm{mod } 8)$ and to answer the Prime Graph Question affirmatively for many such groups.
title Units in group rings and blocks of Klein four or dihedral defect
topic Rings and Algebras
Group Theory
Representation Theory
16U60, 20C05, 20C11
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09525