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Degree 1 and 2 representations of nilpotent groups and applications to units of group rings

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

    E. Jespers & G. Leal

  2. Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68530, 21910, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    E. Jespers & G. Leal

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The first named author is supported in part by NSERC grant OGP0036631, Canada, and by DGICYT, Spain

The second named author is partialy supported by CNPq, Brasil

This work was done while both authors were staying at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Murcia. They would like to thank the department for its warm hospitality and for the pleasant working conditions 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 16U60, 16S34, 20C05

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Jespers, E., Leal, G. Degree 1 and 2 representations of nilpotent groups and applications to units of group rings. Manuscripta Math 86, 479–498 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02568007

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