A TRANSFINITE FILTRATION OF SCHUR MULTIPLICATOR

Abstract

We study certain subgroups of the Schur multiplicator of a group G. These subgroups are related to the identification of subgroups of G determind by ideals in its integral group ring ℤ[G]. Suitably defined transfinite powers of the augmentation ideal of ℤ[G] provide an increasing transfinite filtration of the Schur multiplicator of G. We investigate the relationship of this filtration with the transfinite lower central series of groups which are HZ-local in the sense of Bousfield.