Presentations of skew fields. I. Existentially closed skew fields and the Nullstellensatz
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1. Introduction. The Nullstellensatz in commutative algebraic geometry may be described as a means of studying certain commutative rings (viz. affine algebras) by their homomorphisms into algebraically closed fields, and a number of attempts have been made to extend the result to the non-commutative case. In particular, Amitsur and Procesi have studied the case of general rings, with homomorphisms into matrix rings over commutative fields ((1), (2)) and Procesi has obtained more precise results for homomorphisms of PI-rings (11). Since a finite-dimensional division algebra can always be embedded in a matrix ring over a field, this includes the case of skew fields that are finite-dimensional over their centre, but it tells us nothing about general skew fields.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 77 , Issue 1 , January 1975 , pp. 7 - 19
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