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Algebraic Ideals in Group Rings and Tensor Products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John Lawrence*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
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Abstract

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It is shown that if a solvable group is not locally finite, then the group algebra over a field of characterisitc 0 has no nonzero algebraic ideals.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1992

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