More on the Schur group of a commutative ring (Q5902848)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3914497
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3914497 |
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More on the Schur group of a commutative ring (English)
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1985
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The Schur group of a commutative ring, R, with identity consists of all classes in the Brauer group of R which contain a homomorphic image of a group ring RG for some finite group G. It is the purpose of this article to continue an investigation of this group which was introduced in earlier work as a natural generalization of the Schur group of a field. We generalize certain facts pertaining to the latter, among which are results on extensions of automorphisms and decomposition of central simple algebras into a product of cyclics. Finally we introduce the Schur exponent of a ring which equals the well-known Schur index in the global or local field case.
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Schur group
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classes in the Brauer group
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group ring
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extensions of automorphisms
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decomposition of central simple algebras
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Schur index
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