IMSc Webinar

How many units can a commutative ring have?

Sunil Chebolu

Illinois State University

Laszlo Fuchs posed the following problem in 1960, which remains open: classify the abelian groups occurring as the group of all units in a commutative ring. In this talk, I will provide an elementary solution to a simpler, related problem: find all cardinal numbers occurring as the cardinality of the group of all units in a commutative ring. As a by-product, we obtain a solution to Fuchs' problem for the class of finite abelian p-groups when p is an odd prime.

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