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Let $G$ be a finite nonabelian group, $\mathbb{Z}G$ its associated integral group ring, and $▵\left(G\right)$ its augmentation ideal. For the semidihedral group and another nonabelian 2-group the problem of their augmentation ideals and quotient groups $Q_n\left(G\right)={▵}^n\left(G\right)/{▵}^{n+1}\left(G\right)$ is deal with. An explicit basis for the augmentation ideal is obtained, so that the structure of its quotient groups can be determined.

In this paper, we determine all the normal forms of Hermitian matrices over finite group rings $R=F_{q^2}G$, where $q=p^{\alpha }$, $G$ is a commutative $p$-group with order $p^{\beta }$. Furthermore, using the normal forms of Hermitian matrices, we study the structure of unitary group over $R$ through investigating its BN-pair and order. As an application, we construct a Cartesian authentication code and compute its size parameters.

Let $F$ be a finite field of characteristic $p$ and $K$ a field which contains a primitive $p$th root of unity and $\mathrm{char}K\ne p$. Suppose that a classical group $G$ acts on the $F$-vector space $V$. Then it can induce the actions on the vector space $V\oplus V$ and on the group algebra $K[V\oplus V]$, respectively. In this paper we determine the structure of $G$-invariant ideals of the group algebra $K[V\oplus V]$, and establish the relationship between the invariant ideals of $K\left[V\right]$ and the vector invariant ideals of $K[V\oplus V]$, if $G$ is a unitary group or orthogonal group....

Let ${\mathbb{Z}}_n\left[\mathrm{i}\right]$ be the ring of Gaussian integers modulo $n$. We construct for ${\mathbb{Z}}_n\left[\mathrm{i}\right]$ a cubic mapping graph $\Gamma \left(n\right)$ whose vertex set is all the elements of ${\mathbb{Z}}_n\left[\mathrm{i}\right]$ and for which there is a directed edge from $a\in {\mathbb{Z}}_n\left[\mathrm{i}\right]$ to $b\in {\mathbb{Z}}_n\left[\mathrm{i}\right]$ if $b=a^3$. This article investigates in detail the structure of $\Gamma \left(n\right)$. We give suffcient and necessary conditions for the existence of cycles with length $t$. The number of $t$-cycles in ${\Gamma }_1\left(n\right)$ is obtained and we also examine when a vertex lies on a $t$-cycle of ${\Gamma }_2\left(n\right)$, where ${\Gamma }_1\left(n\right)$ is induced by all the units of ${\mathbb{Z}}_n\left[\mathrm{i}\right]$ while ${\Gamma }_2\left(n\right)$ is induced by all the...

For a finite commutative ring $R$ and a positive integer $k⩾2$, we construct an iteration digraph $G(R,k)$ whose vertex set is $R$ and for which there is a directed edge from $a\in R$ to $b\in R$ if $b=a^k$. Let $R=R_1\oplus ...\oplus R_s$, where $s>1$ and $R_i$ is a finite commutative local ring for $i\in \{1,...,s\}$. Let $N$ be a subset of $\{R_1,\cdots ,R_s\}$ (it is possible that $N$ is the empty set $\varnothing$). We define the fundamental constituents $G_N^{*}(R,k)$ of $G(R,k)$ induced by the vertices which are of the form $\{(a_1,\cdots ,a_s)\in R:a_i\in \mathrm{D}\left(R_i\right)$ if $R_i\in N$, otherwise $a_i\in \mathrm{U}\left(R_i\right),i=1,...,s\},$ where U$\left(R\right)$ denotes the unit group of $R$ and D$\left(R\right)$ denotes the zero-divisor set of $R$. We investigate...

The article studies the cubic mapping graph $\Gamma \left(n\right)$ of ${\mathbb{Z}}_n\left[\mathrm{i}\right]$, the ring of Gaussian integers modulo $n$. For each positive integer $n>1$, the number of fixed points and the in-degree of the elements $\overline{1}$ and $\overline{0}$ in $\Gamma \left(n\right)$ are found. Moreover, complete characterizations in terms of $n$ are given in which ${\Gamma }_2\left(n\right)$ is semiregular, where ${\Gamma }_2\left(n\right)$ is induced by all the zero-divisors of ${\mathbb{Z}}_n\left[\mathrm{i}\right]$.

We investigate the invariant rings of two classes of finite groups $G\le \mathrm{GL}(n,F_q)$ which are generated by a number of generalized transvections with an invariant subspace $H$ over a finite field $F_q$ in the modular case. We name these groups generalized transvection groups. One class is concerned with a given invariant subspace which involves roots of unity. Constructing quotient groups and tensors, we deduce the invariant rings and study their Cohen-Macaulay and Gorenstein properties. The other is concerned with...