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Hans Zassenhaus conjectured that every torsion unit of the integral group ring of a finite group G is conjugate within the rational group algebra to an element of the form \(\pm g\) with \(g\in G\). This conjecture has been disproved recently for metabelian groups, by Eisele and Margolis. However, it is known to be true for many classes of solvable groups, as for example nilpotent groups, cyclic-by-abelian groups, and groups having a Sylow subgroup with abelian complement. On the other hand, the conjecture remains open for the class of supersolvable groups. This paper is a contribution to this question. More precisely, we study the conjecture for the class of cyclic-by-nilpotent groups with a special attention to the class of cyclic-by-Hamiltonian groups. We prove the conjecture for cyclic-by-p-groups and some cyclic-by-Hamiltonian groups.
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We thanks Wolfgang Kimmerle for suggesting us to study the Zassenhaus Conjecture for cyclic-by-Hamiltonian groups.
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This research is partially supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), the Spanish Government under Grant MTM2016-77445-P with “Fondos FEDER”, and by Fundación Séneca of Murcia under Grant 19880/GERM/15.
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Caicedo, M., del Río, Á. On the Zassenhaus Conjecture for Certain Cyclic-by-Nilpotent Groups. Mediterr. J. Math. 17, 62 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-020-1479-7
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