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Isomorphisms of Discriminant Algebras

Commutative Algebra 2016-12-07 v1

Abstract

For each natural number nn, we define a category whose objects are discriminant algebras in rank nn, i.e. functorial means of attaching to each rank-nn algebra a quadratic algebra with the same discriminant. We show that the discriminant algebras defined in [2], [6], and [10] are all isomorphic in this category, and prove furthermore that in ranks n3n \leq 3 discriminant algebras are unique up to unique isomorphism.

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@article{arxiv.1612.01582,
  title  = {Isomorphisms of Discriminant Algebras},
  author = {Owen Biesel and Alberto Gioia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.01582},
  year   = {2016}
}

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