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J. Milnor, Whitehead torsion, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1966), 358–426. MR0196736 (33 #4922) Zbl 0147.23104
[edit] 1 Corrections
As added by the author in proof, Example 1.6 stating that for a finite abelian group is not correct. Here is the torsion subgroup of the Whitehead group , . While for a finite cyclic group, this is not true in general.
Consequently, as the author added in proof, ``Care should be taken with 6.4, 6.7, 8.1, 12.8 and other places in which 1.6 is used.``
[edit] 2 Comments
For information about for finite abelian groups, see the Survey of Computations in the introduction of [Oliver1988].