Some results on FC-hypercentral units of integral group rings

Abstract

We investigate the upper $$FC-$$ central series of the unit group of an integral group ring $${\mathbb Z}G$$ of a periodic group G. We prove that $${\mathcal U}={{\mathcal U}}_1({\mathbb Z}G)$$ has $$FC-$$ central height one if and only if the $$FC-$$ hypercenter of $${{\mathcal U}}_1({\mathbb Z}G)$$ is contained in the normalizer of the trivial units. Further, in these conditions, the $$FC-$$ hypercenter of the unit group is non-central if and only if G is a $$Q^{*}-$$ group. Let $$H \vartriangleleft {\mathcal U}, H$$ contained in the normalizer of the trivial units, suppose that either the elements of finite order form a subgroup or H is a polycyclic-by-finite (polycyclic) subgroup, then H is contained in the finite conjugacy center of $${{\mathcal U}}_1({\mathbb Z}G)$$ .