Integral group rings of solvable groups with trivial central units

Abstract

The integral group ring $\mathbb{Z}G$ of a group $G$ has only trivial central units, if the only central units of $\mathbb{Z}G$ are $\pm z$ for $z$ in the center of $G$. We show that the order of a finite solvable group $G$ with this property, can only have $2$, $3$, $5$ and $7$ as prime divisors, by linking this to inverse semi-rational groups and extending one result on this class of groups. We also classify the Frobenius groups whose integral group rings have only trivial central units.

[v4]: 13 pages. Final version. To appear in "Forum Mathematicum" (already available online)

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