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The lower central series of the unit group of an integral group ring

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The aim of this article is to draw attention towards various natural but unanswered questions related to the lower central series of the unit group of an integral group ring.

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Acknowledgements

The author’s research is supported by DST, India (INSPIRE/04/2017/000897). This research was also supported in part by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) during a visit for participating in the program- Group Algebras, Representations and Computation (Code: ICTS/Prog-garc2019/10).

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Communicated by Gadadhar Misra.

Dedicated to Prof. Passi on his 80th birthday.

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Maheshwary, S. The lower central series of the unit group of an integral group ring. Indian J Pure Appl Math 52, 709–712 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13226-021-00184-8

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