Algebra: Some Recent Advances

✍ Scribed by K. T. Arasu, Surinder K. Sehgal (auth.), I. B. S. Passi (eds.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Series: Trends in Mathematics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
On Abelian Difference Sets....Pages 1-27
Unit Groups of Group Rings....Pages 29-39
Projective Modules Over Polynomial Rings....Pages 41-62
Around Automorphisms of Relatively Free Groups....Pages 63-74
Jordan Decomposition....Pages 75-87
On the Normalizer Problem....Pages 89-98
Galois Cohomology of Classical Groups....Pages 99-109
Central Units in Integral Group Rings....Pages 111-116
Alternative Loop Rings and Related Topics....Pages 117-133
L -values at Zero and the Galois Structure of Global Units....Pages 135-169
A Survey of Groups in Which Normality or Permutability is a Transitive Relation....Pages 171-181
The Structure of Some Group Rings....Pages 183-206
Symmetric Elements and Identities in Group Algebras....Pages 207-213
Serial Modules and Rings....Pages 215-225
On Subgroups Determined by Ideals of an Integral Group Ring....Pages 227-242
A Complex Irreducible Representation of the Quaternion Group and a Non-free Projective Module over the Polynomial Ring in Two Variables over the Real Quaternions....Pages 243-249

✦ Subjects

Mathematics, general