Whitehead torsion (Ex)

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Show that 1-t-t^{-1} is a unit in \Zz[\Zz/5]. Conclue that \text{Wh}(\Zz/5) contains an element of infinite order.

This is [Milnor1966, Example 6.6] and [Kreck&Lück2005, Ex 5.4].

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