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Mal'cev-Neumann rings and noncrossed product division algebras

Rings and Algebras 2011-03-03 v1

Abstract

We first give a sufficient condition for a Mal'cev-Neumann ring of formal series to be a noncrossed product division algebra. This result is then used to give an elementary proof of the existence of noncrossed product division algebras (of degree 8 or degree p^2 for p any odd prime).

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@article{arxiv.1103.0470,
  title  = {Mal'cev-Neumann rings and noncrossed product division algebras},
  author = {Cécile Coyette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0470},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, submitted to Journal of Algebra and its Applications (JAA)