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Division Algebras

Louis H. Rowen ()
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Louis H. Rowen: Bar-Ilan University

A chapter in Proceedings of the Third International Algebra Conference, 2003, pp 221-233 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A division ring, or skew-field, satisfies all the axioms of a field except (possibly) commutativity of multiplication. The center of a division algebra D is a field, which we always denote as F. Thus D is a vector space over F. This paper focuses on the case [D : F]

Keywords: Division Algebra; Division Ring; Matrix Ring; Central Simple Algebra; Symbol Algebra (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0337-6_10

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