Characterizing quaternion rings over an arbitrary base

2009/04/28 by Voight, John · 2 citations
#FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.4310

Abstract

We consider the class of algebras of rank 4 equipped with a standard involution over an arbitrary base ring. In particular, we characterize quaternion rings, those algebras defined by the construction of the even Clifford algebra.

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