Constructive basic theory of central simple algebras
Rings and Algebras
2023-07-03 v2 Logic
Abstract
We provide a constructive treatment of basic results in the theory of central simple algebras. One main issue is the fact that one starting result, Wedderburn's Theorem stating that a simple algebra is a matrix algebra over a skew field, is not constructively valid. We solve this problem by proving instead a dynamical version of this theorem. One can use this to give constructive proofs of basic results of the theory of central simple algebras, such as Skolem-Noether Theorem. We illustrate this development by giving an elementary constructive proof of a theorem of Becher (which is itself a consequence of a celebrated theorem of Merkurjev).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.12775,
title = {Constructive basic theory of central simple algebras},
author = {Thierry Coquand and Henri Lombardi and Stefan Neuwirth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12775},
year = {2023}
}