Abstract: A metabelian group $G$ of order 1440 is constructed which provides a counterexample to a conjecture of Zassenhaus on automorphisms of integral group rings. The group is constructed in the spirit of [8]. An augmented automorphism of ${\hbox{$\Bbb Z$}G$ which has no Zassenhaus factorization is given explicitly (this was already done in [7] for a group of order $6720$), but this time only a few distinguished group ring elements are used for its construction, carefully exploiting certain congruence relations satisfied by powers of these elements.
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