Tame group actions on central simple algebras

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Abstract

We study actions of linear algebraic groups on finite-dimensional central simple algebras. We describe the fixed algebra for a broad class of such actions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1039-1056
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of Algebra
Volume318
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 2007

Funding

* Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Z. Reichstein), [email protected] (N. Vonessen). URLs: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~reichst (Z. Reichstein), http://www.math.umt.edu/vonessen (N. Vonessen). 1 Z. Reichstein was supported in part by an NSERC research grant.

    Keywords

    • Algebraic group
    • Central simple algebra
    • Galois cohomology
    • Geometric action
    • Group action
    • Semisimple algebra
    • Tame action

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