English

A separable deformation of the quaternion group algebra

Rings and Algebras 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The Donald-Flanigan conjecture asserts that for any finite group and for any field, the corresponding group algebra can be deformed to a separable algebra. The minimal unsolved instance, namely the quaternion group over a field of characteristic 2 was considered as a counterexample. We present here a separable deformation of the quaternion group algebra. In a sense, the conjecture for any finite group is open again.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0704.1556,
  title  = {A separable deformation of the quaternion group algebra},
  author = {Nurit Barnea and Yuval Ginosar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1556},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages