Download or read book Group and Semigroup Rings written by G. Karpilovsky and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad range of topics is covered here, including commutative monoid rings, the Jacobson radical of semigroup rings, blocks of modular group algebras, nilpotency index of the radical of group algebras, the isomorphism problem for group rings, inverse semigroup algebras and the Picard group of an abelian group ring. The survey lectures provide an up-to-date account of the current state of the subject and form a comprehensive introduction for intending researchers.