If $X$ is a smooth scheme over a perfect field of characteristic $p$, and if ${𝒟}_X^{\left(\infty \right)}$ is the sheaf of differential operators on $X$ [7], it is well known that giving an action of ${𝒟}_X^{\left(\infty \right)}$ on an ${𝒪}_X$-module $ℰ$ is equivalent to giving an infinite sequence of ${𝒪}_X$-modules descending $ℰ$ via the iterates of the Frobenius endomorphism of $X$ [5]. We show that this result can be generalized to any infinitesimal deformation $f:X\to S$ of a smooth morphism in characteristic $p$, endowed with Frobenius liftings. We also show that it extends to adic...

Suppose $p$ is a prime number and $R$ is a commutative ring with unity of characteristic 0 in which $p$ is not a unit. Assume that $G$ and $H$ are $p$-primary abelian groups such that the respective group algebras $RG$ and $RH$ are $R$-isomorphic. Under certain restrictions on the ideal structure of $R$, it is shown that $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic.

In this note we study sets of normal generators of finitely presented residually $p$-finite groups. We show that if an infinite, finitely presented, residually $p$-finite group $G$ is normally generated by $g_1,\cdots ,g_k$ with order $n_1,\cdots ,n_k\in \{1,2,\cdots \}\cup \left\{\infty \right\}$, then $${\beta }_1^{\left(2\right)}\left(G\right)\le k-1-\sum _{i=1}^k\frac{1}{n_i},$$ where ${\beta }_1^{\left(2\right)}\left(G\right)$ denotes the first ${\ell }^2$-Betti number of $G$. We also show that any $k$-generated group with ${\beta }_1^{\left(2\right)}\left(G\right)\ge k-1-\epsilon$ must have girth greater than or equal $1/\epsilon$.

Let $R$ be an associative ring with identity and let $J\left(R\right)$ denote the Jacobson radical of $R$. $R$ is said to be semilocal if $R/J\left(R\right)$ is Artinian. In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the group ring $RG$, where $G$ is an abelian group, to be semilocal.

The paper was motivated by Kovacs’ paper (1973), Isaacs’ paper (1980) and a recent paper, due to Brešar et al. (2018), concerning Skolem-Noether algebras. Let $K$ be a unital commutative ring, not necessarily a field. Given a unital $K$-algebra $S$, where $K$ is contained in the center of $S$, $n\in \mathbb{N}$, the goal of this paper is to study the question: when can a homomorphism $\phi :{\mathrm{M}}_n\left(K\right)\to {\mathrm{M}}_n\left(S\right)$ be extended to an inner automorphism of ${\mathrm{M}}_n\left(S\right)$? As an application of main results presented in the paper, it is proved that if $S$ is a semilocal...