Coset closure of a circulant S-ring and schurity problem

Let G be a finite group. There is a natural Galois correspondence between the permutation groups containing G as a regular subgroup, and the Schur rings (S-rings) over G. The problem we deal with in the paper, is to characterize those S-rings that are closed under this correspondence, when the group G is cyclic (the schurity problem for circulant S-rings). It is proved that up to a natural reduction, the characteristic property of such an S-ring is to be a certain algebraic fusion of its coset closure introduced and studied in the paper. Based on this characterization we show that the schurity problem is equivalent to the consistency of a modular linear system associated with a circulant S-ring under consideration. As a byproduct we show that a circulant S-ring is Galois closed if and only if so is its dual.