%0 Journal Article %T A splitting for K_1 of completed group rings %A Peter Schneider %A Otmar Venjakob %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X Motivated by the theory of Coleman power series (reinterpreted via fields of norms by Fontaine) we construct a splitting of the natural map of K_1 groups arising from the mod p reduction map of the Iwasawa algebra of a pro-p Lie group. We also show the vanishing of SK_1 for certain unipotent groups. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1493v1