Groups, Rings, Group Rings, and Hopf Algebras.

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Groups, Rings, Group Rings, and Hopf Algebras, held October 2-4, 2015 at Loyola University, Chicago, IL, and the AMS Special Session on Groups, Rings, Group Rings, and Hopf Algebras, held October 3-4, 2015, at Loyola University,...

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Main Author: Chin, William
Other Authors: Bergen, Jeffrey, Catoiu, Stefan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Providence : American Mathematical Society, 2017.
Series:Contemporary Mathematics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title page; Contents; Preface; The Dixmier-Moeglin equivalence for extensions of scalars and Ore extensions; 1. Introduction; 2. The Dixmier-Moeglin equivalence under base change; 3. Linear operators on rings; 4. Proof of Theorem 1.6; Acknowledgments; References; Nagata-Higman and rings with involution; References; On left symmetric color algebras; 1. Introduction; 2. Left symmetric color algebras and nondegenerate color symmetric 2-cocycles; 3. Lifting the derivations of into the derivations of * ; Acknowledgements; References.
  • On the automorphism group of rational group algebras of finite groups1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Group algebras of simple groups; 4. Non-simple groups; References; Graded simple modules and loop modules; 1. Introduction; 2. Graded simple modules; 3. Loop modules; 4. The groupoids \frM() and \frN(); 5. Graded simple modules with finite-dimensional centralizers; 6. Graded simple modules with simple centralizers; 7. Finite-dimensional graded simple modules in characteristic zero; References; Symmetric groups and fixed points on modules: An application of group theory to topology.
  • 1. Introduction2. Theorem 2.1; 3. The norm map; References; Free unit groups in group rings and division rings: My collaboration with Don Passman; 1. Introduction; 2. Our first work; 3. The following years; 4. The proof of Theorem 3.2; 5. Involutions in group rings; 6. Our exploits in division rings; References; Group rings and Jordan decomposition; 1. Introduction; 2. Matrix Rings; 3. Group Rings; 4. Future Work; References; On the Toeplitz-Jacobson algebra and direct finiteness; 1. Introduction; 2. The results; 3. The direct finiteness conjecture and other outstanding problems.
  • AcknowledgmentReferences; Frobenius divisibility for Hopf algebras; Introduction; 1. Symmetric Algebras; 2. Hopf Algebras; Acknowledgement; References; Generalized nil-Coxeter algebras, cocommutative algebras, and the PBW property; 1. Introduction; 2. Cocommutative algebras, smash products, and the PBW theorem; 3. Characterization via deformation theory; 4. The case of bialgebras and Hopf algebras; 5. Generalized nil-Coxeter algebras and grouplike algebras; 6. Deformations over cocommutative algebras with nilpotent maximal ideals; Acknowledgments; References; -subgroups of units in ℤ
  • 1. Introduction2. Known results; 3. Frobenius Groups; 4. Crucial examples for simple linear groups; 5. Conjugacy in larger group rings; References; On the classification of finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras; 0. Introduction; 1. Abelian extensions; 2. Structure of ²_{ }(\myk _{ }, \myk^{ }, \tl); 3. The Isomorphism Theorems; 4. Almost Abelian Hopf Algebras of Dimension \le ⁴; 5. Some old classification results revisited; 6. Appendices; References; Zero divisors in group rings of wreath products of groups; 1. Introduction.; 2. Preliminaries.; 3. The Proof of Theorem I.