Let G be an infinite abelian p-group and let K be a field of the first kind with respect to p of characteristic different from p such that $s_p\left(K\right)=\mathbb{N}$ or $s_p\left(K\right)=\mathbb{N}\cup 0$. The main result of the paper is the computation of the Ulm-Kaplansky functions of the factor group S(KG)/G of the normalized Sylow p-subgroup S(KG) in the group ring KG modulo G. We also characterize the basic subgroups of S(KG)/G by proving that they are isomorphic to S(KB)/B, where B is a basic subgroup of G.

We prove that if $G$ is an abelian $p$-group with a nice subgroup $A$ so that $G/A$ is a $\Sigma$-group, then $G$ is a $\Sigma$-group if and only if $A$ is a $\Sigma$-subgroup in $G$ provided that $A$ is equipped with a valuation induced by the restricted height function on $G$. In particular, if in addition $A$ is pure in $G$, $G$ is a $\Sigma$-group precisely when $A$ is a $\Sigma$-group. This extends the classical Dieudonné criterion (Portugal. Math., 1952) as well as it supplies our recent results in (Arch. Math. Brno, 2005), (Bull. Math. Soc....

Let $S\left(RG\right)$ be a normed Sylow $p$-subgroup in a group ring $RG$ of an abelian group $G$ with $p$-component $G_p$ and a $p$-basic subgroup $B$ over a commutative unitary ring $R$ with prime characteristic $p$. The first central result is that $1+I(RG;B_p)+I(R\left(p^i\right)G;G)$ is basic in $S\left(RG\right)$ and $B[1+I(RG;B_p)+I(R\left(p^i\right)G;G)]$ is $p$-basic in $V\left(RG\right)$, and $[1+I(RG;B_p)+I(R\left(p^i\right)G;G)]G_p/G_p$ is basic in $S\left(RG\right)/G_p$ and $[1+I(RG;B_p)+I(R\left(p^i\right)G;G)]G/G$ is $p$-basic in $V\left(RG\right)/G$, provided in both cases $G/G_p$ is $p$-divisible and $R$ is such that its maximal perfect subring $R^{p^i}$ has no nilpotents whenever $i$ is natural. The second major result is that $B(1+I(RG;B_p))$ is $p$-basic in $V\left(RG\right)$ and $(1+I(RG;B_p))G/G$ is $p$-basic...

Let $G$ be a $p$-mixed abelian group and $R$ is a commutative perfect integral domain of $charR=p>0$. Then, the first main result is that the group of all normalized invertible elements $V\left(RG\right)$ is a $\Sigma$-group if and only if $G$ is a $\Sigma$-group. In particular, the second central result is that if $G$ is a $\Sigma$-group, the $R$-algebras isomorphism $RA\cong RG$ between the group algebras $RA$ and $RG$ for an arbitrary but fixed group $A$ implies $A$ is a $p$-mixed abelian $\Sigma$-group and even more that the high subgroups of $A$ and $G$ are isomorphic, namely,...

Let $G$ be a finite group and ${\pi }_e\left(G\right)$ be the set of element orders of $G$. Let $k\in {\pi }_e\left(G\right)$ and $m_k$ be the number of elements of order $k$ in $G$. Set $\mathrm{nse}\left(G\right):=\{m_k:k\in {\pi }_e\left(G\right)\}$. In fact $\mathrm{nse}\left(G\right)$ is the set of sizes of elements with the same order in $G$. In this paper, by $\mathrm{nse}\left(G\right)$ and order, we give a new characterization of finite projective special linear groups $L_2\left(p\right)$ over a field with $p$ elements, where $p$ is prime. We prove the following theorem: If $G$ is a group such that $\left|G\right|=|L_2\left(p\right)|$ and $\mathrm{nse}\left(G\right)$ consists of $1$, $p^2-1$, $p(p+ϵ)/2$ and some numbers divisible by $2p$, where $p$ is a prime...

In this paper we present a method of obtaining new examples of spaces of orderings by considering quotient structures of the space of orderings $(X_{\mathbb{Q}\left(x\right)},G_{\mathbb{Q}\left(x\right)})$ - it is, in general, nontrivial to determine whether, for a subgroup $G₀\subset G_{\mathbb{Q}\left(x\right)}$ the derived quotient structure $(X_{\mathbb{Q}\left(x\right)}{|}_{G₀},G₀)$ is a space of orderings, and we provide some insights into this problem. In particular, we show that if a quotient structure arising from a subgroup of index 2 is a space of orderings, then it necessarily is a profinite one.