Talk:Atiyah Conjecture and finite groups (Ex)

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Let G be a finite group and assume that \mathcal{D}(G) is a skew field. Since a skew field is in particular a domain, the subring \mathbb{Z}G of \mathcal{D}G is then also a domain. Let g\in G be an element of order n and consider the norm element N\coloneq 1+g+\dots+g^{n-1}\in \mathbb{Z}G. Note that N\neq 0. Since (1-g)N=N-gN=N-N=0 and \mathbb{Z}G does not admit zero divisors, we conclude that 1-g=0, i.e., G is necessarily the trivial group.

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