By Farber M., et al. (eds.)
This quantity provides the court cases of the Tel Aviv foreign Topology convention held throughout the specified Topology application at Tel Aviv college. The booklet is devoted to Professor Mel Rothenberg at the celebration of his sixty fifth birthday. His contributions to topology are good known---from the early paintings on triangulations to various papers on transformation teams and on geometric and analytic points of torsion thought. present study relating to these contributions are mentioned during this publication. assurance is incorporated at the following subject matters: vanishing theorems for the Dirac operator, the idea of Reidemeister torsion (including countless dimensional flat bundles), Nobikov-Shubin invariants of manifolds, topology of staff activities, Lusternik-Schnirelman idea for closed 1-forms, finite variety invariants of hyperlinks and 3-manifolds, equivariant cobordisms, equivariant orientations and Thom isomorphisms, and extra.
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Yr are D-linearly independent (because so are 1 ⊗ w1 , . . , 1 ⊗ wr ), so they form a D-basis of J . As J is a two-sided ideal, for all d ∈ D we must have d −1 yi d ∈ J for 1 ≤ i ≤ r , so there exist βil ∈ D with d −1 yi d = βil yl . e. αi j ∈ k as D is central. This means that J can be generated by elements of K (viewed as a k-subalgebra of D ⊗k K via the embedding w → 1 ⊗ w). As K is a field, we must have J ∩ K = K , so J = D ⊗k K . This shows that D ⊗k K is simple. 2. 7 imply that A ⊗k k¯ ∼ = Mn (k) ¯ n.
En be the standard basis of K n . Mapping a matrix M ∈ I1 to Me1 induces an isomorphism I1 ∼ = K n of n K -vector spaces, and thus λ induces an automorphism of K . As such, it is given by an invertible matrix C. We get that for all M ∈ Mn (K ), the endomorphism of K n defined in the standard basis by λ(M) has matrix C MC −1 , whence the lemma. 2 The automorphism group of Mn (K ) is the projective general linear group PGLn (K ). Proof There is a natural homomorphism GLn (K ) → Aut(Mn (K )) mapping C ∈ GLn (K ) to the automorphism M → C MC −1 .
1 we see that there is an irreducible polynomial f ∈ k[x] and a k-algebra homomorphism k[x]/( f ) → D whose image contains d. But k being algebraically closed, we have k[x]/( f ) ∼ = k. 2 Splitting fields The last corollary enables one to give an alternative characterization of central simple algebras. 1 Let k be a field and A a finite dimensional k-algebra. Then A is a central simple algebra if and only if there exist an integer n > 0 and a finite field extension K |k so that A ⊗k K is isomorphic to the matrix ring Mn (K ).