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Unitaries in Simple Artinian Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

M. Chacron
M. Chacron*
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
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Let R be a 2-torsion free simple artinian ring with involution*. The element u of R is said to be unitary if u is invertible with inverse u*. In this paper we shall be concerned with the subalgebras W of R over its centre Z such that uWu* ⊆ W, for all unitaries u of R. We prove that if R has rank superior to 1 over a division ring D containing more than 5 elements and if R is not 4-dimensional then any such subalgebra W must be one of the trivial subalgebras 0, Z or R, under one of the following extra finiteness assumptions: W contains inverses, W satisfies a polynomial identity, the ground division ring D is algebraic, the involution is a conjugate-transpose involution such that D equipped with the induced involution is generated by unitaries.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , 01 June 1979 , pp. 542 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1979

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