On the Structure of Augmentation Quotient Groups for the Generalized Quaternion Group

For the generalized quaternion group G, this article deals with the problem of presenting the nth power Δn(G) of the augmentation ideal Δ (G) of the integral group ring ZG. The structure of Qn(G)=Δn(G)/Δn+1(G) is obtained.

Augmentation quotients of some nonabelian finite groups

1. LetGbe a group,ZGits integral group ring and Δ = ΔGthe augmentation idealZGBy anaugmentation quotientofGwe mean any one of theZG-moduleswheren, r≥ 1. In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in determining the abelian group structure of the augmentation quotientsQn(G) =Qn,1(G) and(see (1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15)). Passi(8) has shown that in order to determineQn(G) andPn(G) for finiteGit is sufficient to assume thatGis ap-group. Passi(8, 9) and Singer(13, 14) have obtained information on the structure of these quotients for certain classes of abelianp-groups. However little seems to be known of a quantitative nature for nonabelian groups. In (2) Bachmann and Grünenfelder have proved the following qualitative result: ifGis a finite group then there exist natural numbersn0and π such thatQn(G) ≅Qn+π(G) for alln≥n0; ifGωis the nilpotent residual ofGandG/Gωhas classcthen π divides l.c.m. {1, 2, …,c}. There do not appear to be any examples in the literature of this periodic behaviour forc> 1. One of goals here is to present such examples. These examples will be from the class of finitep-groups in which the lower central series is anNp-series.