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On the classification of rational four-dimensional unital division algebras

Rings and Algebras 2018-02-26 v1

Abstract

In a paper by E. Dieterich 2017, the category C(k)\mathscr{C}(k) of four-dimensional unital division algebras, whose right nucleus is non-trivial and whose automorphism group contains Klein's four group VV, is studied over a general ground field kk with chark2\mathrm{char}\,k\neq 2. In particular, the objects in C(k)\mathscr{C}(k) are exhaustively constructed from parameters in k3k^3 and explicit isomorphism conditions for the constructed objects are found in terms of these parameters. In this paper, we specialize to the case k=Qk=\mathbb{Q} and present results towards a classification of C(Q)\mathscr{C}(\mathbb{Q}). In particular, for each field \ell with [:k]=2[\ell:k]=2 we present explicity a two-parameter family of pairwise non-isomorphic non-associative objects in C(Q)\mathscr{C}(\mathbb{Q}) that admit \ell as a subfield and we provide a method for classifying the full subcategory of central skew fields admitting \ell as a subfield and kVkV-submodule. We also classify the subcategory of C(Q)\mathscr{C}(\mathbb{Q}) of all four-dimensional Galois extensions of Q\mathbb{Q} with Galois group VV that admit \ell as a subfield.

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@article{arxiv.1802.08507,
  title  = {On the classification of rational four-dimensional unital division algebras},
  author = {Gustav Hammarhjelm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.08507},
  year   = {2018}
}