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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).

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@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}
}
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