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Acta Mathematica Vietnamica

ON SUBGROUPS OF THE GENERAL LINEAR GROUP OVER A COMMUTATIVE VON NEUMANN REGULAR RING

BUI XUAN HAI, TRAN NGOC HOI

Abstract

Let $R$ be a commutative von Neumann regular ring. In this paper we study the lattice of subgroups of the general linear group $G=GL_n(R)$ containing the group $D=D_n(R)$ of diagonal matrices. We show that if $R$ satisfies some conditions (see Definition 2.4 in the text), then for every such subgroup $H$ there is a uniquely determined $D$-net $\sigma$ of ideals such that $G(\sigma)\leq H\leq N(\sigma)$, where $N(\sigma)$ is the normalizer of a $D$-net subgroup $G(\sigma)$.