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On lower bounds for the radical of a block ideal in a finite p-solvable group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Shigeo Koshitani
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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Chiba University, Yayoi-Cho, Chiba-City, 260Japan
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Let F be any field of characteristic p > 0, G a finite p-solvable group, pa the order of Sylow p-subgroups of G, FG the group algebra of G over F, and J(FG) the Jacobson radical of FG. Following Wallace [11] we write t(G) for the least integer t≧1 such that J(FG)t = 0.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1984

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