Partial augmentations power property: A Zassenhaus Conjecture related problem

Abstract

Zassenhaus conjectured that any unit of finite order in the integral group ring ZG of a finite group G is conjugate in the rational group algebra of G to an element in ±G. We review the known weaker versions of this conjecture and introduce a new condition, on the partial augmentations of the powers of a unit of finite order in ZG, which is weaker than the Zassenhaus Conjecture but stronger than its other weaker versions.We prove that this condition is satisfied for units mapping to the identity modulo a nilpotent normal subgroup of G. Moreover, we show that if the condition holds then the HeLP Method adopts a more friendly form and use this to prove the Zassenhaus Conjecture for a special class of groups.