Klaus Wilhelm Roggenkamp

Klaus Wilhelm Roggenkamp (24 December 1940 – 23 July 2021[1]) was a German mathematician, specializing in algebra.

Education and career

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As an undergraduate, Roggenkamp studied mathematics from 1960 to 1964 at the University of Giessen.[2] There in 1967 he received his PhD. His thesis Darstellungen endlicher Gruppen in Polynombereichen (Representations of finite groups in polynomial integral domains) was written under the supervision of Hermann Boerner.[3] As a postdoc Roggenkamp was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied under Irving Reiner, and at the University of Montreal. After four years as a professor at Bielefeld University, he was appointed to the chair of algebra at the University of Stuttgart.[2]

Roggenkamp and Leonard Lewy Scott collaborated on a long series of papers on the groups of units of integral group rings, dealing with problems connected with the "integral isomorphism problem", which was proposed by Graham Higman in his 1940 doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford.[4][5] In 1986 Roggenkamp and Scott proved their most famous theorem (published in 1987 in the Annals of Mathematics). Their theorem states that given two finite groups   and  , if Z  is isomorphic to Z  then   is isomorphic to  , in the case where   and   are finite p-groups over the p-adic integers, and also in the case where   and   are finite nilpotent groups. Their 1987 paper also established a very strong form of a conjecture made by Hans Zassenhaus. The papers of Roggenkamp and Scott were the basis for most developments which followed in the study of finite groups of units of integral group rings.[2]

In 1988 Roggenkamp and Scott found a counterexample to another conjecture by Hans Zassenhaus — the conjecture was a somewhat strengthened form of the conjecture that the "integral isomorphism problem" always has an affirmative solution.[6] Martin Hertweck, partly building on the techniques introduced by Roggenkamp and Scott for their counterexample, published a counterexample to the conjecture that the "integral isomorphism problem" can always be solved affirmatively.[7][8]

A series of joint papers of Klaus Roggenkamp and Karl Gruenberg centers around homological considerations of groups and connections to homological questions of group rings. In particular, the authors studied the relation module of a group, i.e. the abelianised kernel of a minimal presentation of a group. Various applications were given, among others, to questions about units in integral group rings. Klaus Roggenkamp managed to clarify completely the structure of blocks of p-adic group rings with cyclic defect group, thus establishing an integral analogue of the celebrated theory of Brauer tree algebras. Many applications are known and more are on the way, from equivalences between derived categories to the inverse problem of Galois theory.
A new branch of representation theory is created by Klaus Roggenkamp’s most recent research on higher-dimensional orders. Motivated by recent developments in the representation theory of algebraic groups, algebraic combinatorics, Hecke algebras and quantum groups, Klaus Roggenkamp had started to study orders over two and higher-dimensional coefficient domains.[2]

Roggenkamp was elected a member of the Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt (Erfurt Academy of Useful Sciences) and was made an honorary member of Ovidius University of Constanța in Romania.

Selected publications

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Articles

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  • Auslander, M.; Roggenkamp, K. W. (1972). "A characterization of orders of finite lattice type". Inventiones Mathematicae. 17: 79–84. Bibcode:1972InMat..17...79A. doi:10.1007/BF01390025. S2CID 121094091.
  • Gruenberg, K. W.; Roggenkamp, K. W. (1975). "Decomposition of the Augmentation Ideal and of the Relation Modules of a Finite Group". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. s3-31 (2): 149–166. doi:10.1112/plms/s3-31.2.149. ISSN 0024-6115.
  • Roggenkamp, K.W.; Schmidt, J.W. (1976). "Almost split sequences for integral group rings and orders". Communications in Algebra. 4 (10): 893–917. doi:10.1080/00927877608822144.
  • Roggenkamp, K.W. (1977). "The construction of almost split sequences for integral group rings and orders". Communications in Algebra. 5 (13): 1363–1373. doi:10.1080/00927877708822223.
  • Ringel, Claus Michael; Roggenkamp, Klaus W. (1979). "Diagrammatic methods in the representation theory of orders" (PDF). Journal of Algebra. 60 (1): 11–42. doi:10.1016/0021-8693(79)90106-6.
  • Roggenkamp, Klaus; Scott, Leonard (1987). "Isomorphisms of p-adic Group Rings". Annals of Mathematics. 126 (3): 593–647. doi:10.2307/1971362. JSTOR 1971362.
  • Roggenkamp, K. W. (1991). "The isomorphism problem for integral group rings of finite groups". Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Finite-Dimensional Algebras. pp. 193–220. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8658-1_7. ISBN 978-3-0348-9720-4.
  • Roggenkamp, K.W. (1992). "Blocks of cyclic defect and green-orders". Communications in Algebra. 20 (6): 1715–1734. doi:10.1080/00927879208824426.
  • Kimmerle, W.; Roggenkamp, K.W. (1993). "Projective limits of group rings". Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 88 (1–3): 119–142. doi:10.1016/0022-4049(93)90017-N.
  • Roggenkamp, Klaus W.; Zimmermann, Alexander (1995). "Outer group automorphisms may become inner in the integral group ring". Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 103: 91–99. doi:10.1016/0022-4049(95)90113-Y.
  • Roggenkamp, K. W. (1996). "Almost split sequences and triangles for artin algebras and orders". Proceedings of the Workshop at UNAM, Mexico, August 16–20, 1994. Canadian Mathematical Society Conference Proceedings, vol. 19. pp. 261–280. ISBN 9780821803967.
  • Roggenkamp, Klaus W.; Kirichenko, Vladimir V.; Khibina, Marina A.; Zhuravlev, Viktor N. (2001). "Gorenstein Tiled Orders". Communications in Algebra. 29 (9): 4231–4247. doi:10.1081/AGB-100105998. S2CID 120994891.
  • Khanduja, Sudesh K.; Popescu, N.; Roggenkamp, K. W. (2002). "On minimal pairs and residually transcendental extensions of valuations". Mathematika. 49 (1–2): 93–106. doi:10.1112/S0025579300016090.

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References

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  1. ^ Klaus Roggenkamp (in German)
  2. ^ a b c d König, Steffen; Zimmermann, Alexander (May 2000). "Biography and appreciation on the occasion of Klaus Roggenkamp's 60th birthday" (PDF).
  3. ^ Klaus Wilhelm Roggenkamp at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Higman, Graham (1940). "The units of group-rings". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. (2). 46: 231–248. doi:10.1112/plms/s2-46.1.231.
  5. ^ Hertweck, Martin (2007). "Unit groups of integral finite group rings with no noncyclic abelian finite subgroups". arXiv:0704.0412 [math.RT].
  6. ^ Scott: On a conjecture of Zassenhaus and beyond. In: Leonid A. Bokut', Yu L. Ershov, Aleksei I. Kostikin (eds.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Algebra. Dedicated to the Memory of A. I. Mal'cev (= Contemporary Mathematics. 131, 1). Volume 1. American Mathematical Society, Providence RI 1992, ISBN 0-8218-5136-5, pp. 325-343
  7. ^ "Collaborations". Leonard Scott, University of Virginia (faculty.virginia.edu).
  8. ^ Martin Hertweck: A counterexample to the isomorphism problem for integral group rings. In: Annals of Mathematics. Series 2, Volume 154, No. 1, 2001, pp. 115-138, doi:10.2307/3062112.