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Generic algebras with involution of degree 8m

✍ Scribed by David J. Saltman; Jean-Pierre Tignol

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
103 KB
Volume
258
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-8693

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✦ Synopsis

The centers of the generic central simple algebras with involution are interesting objects in the theory of central simple algebras. These fields also arise as invariant fields for linear actions of projective orthogonal or symplectic groups. In this paper, we prove that when the characteristic is not 2, these fields are retract rational, in the case the degree is 8m and m is odd. We achieve this by proving the equivalent lifting property for the class of central simple algebras of degree 8m with involution. A companion paper [D.J. Saltman, Invariant fields of symplectic and orthogonal groups, preprint] deals with the case of m, 2m, and 4m where stronger rationality results are proven.

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