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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818822803321

Titolo

Algebraists' homage : papers in ring theory and related topics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1982]

©1982

ISBN

0-8218-7599-X

0-8218-5374-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 13 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

512/.4

Soggetti

Associative rings

Nonassociative rings

Associative algebras

Nonassociative algebras

Galois theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Proceedings of the Conference on Algebra in honor of Nathan Jacobson, held in New Haven, Connecticut, June 2-5, 1981, edited by S.A. Amitsur, D.J. Saltman, and G.B. Seligman"--Verso of title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  Introduction --  Survexs: --  Division algebras, a survey --  Representation theory of finite dimensional algebras --  The polynomial identities of matrices --  0. Introduction --  1. T-ideals --  2. Central polynomials --  3. Representation theory of the symmetric group and general linear group --  4. Trace identities --  5. Codimensions and cocharacters --  6. The ring of generic matrices --  7. Example: The ring of 2 x 2 generic matrices --  The order of a finite group of Lie type --  Restricted Lie algebras (and beyond) --  Addresses: --  Determinants on free fields --  Weak cohomology --  Papers in Ring Theory: --  Applications of the classification of finite simple groups to Brauer groups --  Generic structures and field theory --  Balanced spaces of forms and skew cyclic transformations --  Rings with bounded index of nilpotence --  On the Jacobson density theorem --  Derivations of prime rings having power-central values --  Lie and Jordan mappings --  Some properties of rings reflected in endomorphism rings of free modules --  On the Galois theory of



commutative rings I: Dedekind's theorem on the independence of automorphisms revisited --  On the deformation of diagrams of algebras --  On the Gelfand-Kirillov dimensions of noetherian PI-algebras --  A simple proof of Kostant's theorem, and an analogue for the symplectic involution --  Affine rings satisfying a polynomial identity --  Algebraic structure of power series rings --  Linkage and the symmetric algebra of ideals --  Polynomial constraints in lattice-ordered rings --  Lie, Jordan and Nonassociative Systems: --  Reality properties of conjugacy classes in spin groups and symplectic groups --  Variations on even Clifford algebras --  On the determination of rank one Lie algebras of prime characteristic --  Restricted simple Lie algebras of rank 2 or of toral rank 2 --  Restricted simple Lie algebras with toral Cartan subalgebras --  Composition triples --  Triple products, modular forms and harmonic volumes --  Bivariants of ternary rings --  Separable alternative algebras over commutative rings --  Exceptional Jordan division algebras --  An apology for Jordan algebras in quantum theory --  Identities of non-associative algebras studied by computer --  Galois Theory and Other Topics: --  On regularly closed fields --  Some geometric applications of a differential equation in characteristic p > 0 to the theory of algebraic surfaces --  On the inverse problem in difference Galois theory --  Quadratic Hopf algebras and Galois extensions --  The left antipodes of a left Hopf algebra --  Similarity of nilpotent integer matrices, or, four elementary categories --  Normal antilinear operators on a Hilbert space --  Why commutative diagrams coincide with equivalent proofs --  Axiomatic game theory.