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Central Idempotents in Group Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

R. G. Burns*
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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Let R be a ring and G a group. The group ring RG consists of all functions f: GR with finite support. Addition is pointwise and multiplication is defined for f, hRG and gG, by

The support group of f is defined to be the subgroup of G generated by the support of f. The element f is idempotent if ff = f

We prove the following result.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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