Symmetric square-central elements in products of orthogonal involutions in characteristic two

2017/01/09 by Nokhodkar, Amir Hossein
#11E39 #16K20 #16W10 #FOS: Mathematics #Rings and Algebras (math.RA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.02164

Abstract

We obtain some criteria for a symmetric square-central element of a totally decomposable algebra with orthogonal involution in characteristic two, to be contained in an invariant quaternion subalgebra.

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