Idempotents in complex group rings: theorems of Zalesskii and Bass revisited

Rings in which elements are the sum of an‎ ‎idempotent and a regular element

Let R be an associative ring with unity. An element a in R is said to be r-clean if a = e+r, where e is an idempotent and r is a regular (von Neumann) element in R. If every element of R is r-clean, then R is called an r-clean ring. In this paper, we prove that the concepts of clean ring and r-clean ring are equivalent for abelian rings. Further we prove that if 0 and 1 are the only idempotents...

Primitive central idempotents of finite group rings of symmetric groups

Let p be a prime. We denote by Sn the symmetric group of degree n, by An the alternating group of degree n and by Fp the field with p elements. An important concept of modular representation theory of a finite group G is the notion of a block. The blocks are in one-to-one correspondence with block idempotents, which are the primitive central idempotents of the group ring FqG, where q is a prime...

Some commutativity theorems for $*$-prime rings with $(sigma,tau)$-derivation

‎Let $R$ be a $*$-prime ring with center‎ ‎$Z(R)$‎, ‎$d$ a non-zero $(sigma,tau)$-derivation of $R$ with associated‎ ‎automorphisms $sigma$ and $tau$ of $R$‎, ‎such that $sigma$‎, ‎$tau$‎ ‎and $d$ commute with $'*'$‎. ‎Suppose that $U$ is an ideal of $R$ such that $U^*=U$‎, ‎and $C_{sigma,tau}={cin‎ ‎R~|~csigma(x)=tau(x)c~mbox{for~all}~xin R}.$ In the present paper‎, ‎it is shown that if charac...

Wedderburn decomposition of finite group algebras

We show a method to effectively compute the Wedderburn decomposition and the primitive central idempotents of a semisimple finite group algebra of an abelian-by-supersolvable group G from certain pairs of subgroups of G. In this paper F = Fq denotes a finite field with q elements and G is a finite group of order n such that FG is semisimple, or equivalently (q, n) = 1. The group algebra FG is a...

Homotopy Idempotents and the Bass Conjecture