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A Counterexample to Kaplansky's Direct-Finiteness Conjecture in Odd Characteristic

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OpenAI Mathopenai-math/A-Counterexample-to-Kaplanskys-Direct-Finiteness-Conjecture-in-Odd-CharacteristicSep 26, 2026math.RAAI-generatedscore 0

We construct a counterexample to Kaplansky's direct-finiteness conjecture in odd characteristic. For one specified odd prime p , we obtain a field K of order p 4 , a finitely generated group G containing torsion, and finite sums $a,b\in K[G]$ with $ab=1$ but $ba\ne1$. The same elements define a cellular automaton on K G that is injective but not surjective.

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