Derivations of group rings for finite and FC groups

Abstract

In this paper we establish decomposition theorems for derivations of group rings. We provide a topological technique for studying derivations of a group ring A[G] in case G has finite conjugacy classes. As a result, we describe all derivations of algebra A[G] for the case when G is a finite group, or G is an FC-group. In addition, we describe an algorithm to explicitly calculate all derivations of a group ringAs examples, derivations of Z4[S3] and F2m D2n are considered.