A characterisation of the quaternions using commutators

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Authors Erwin Kleinfeld, Yoav Segev

Publication date 26 July 2022

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09933

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions (11R52) Skew fields, division rings (12E15)

Abstract: Let $R$ be an associative ring with $$ which is not commutative. Assume that any non-zero commutator $vinR$ satisfies: $v^2$ is in the center of $R$ and $v$ is not a zero-divisor. (Note that our assumptions do not include finite dimensionality.) We prove that $R$ has no zero divisors, and that if $mchar(R)e2,$ then the localization of $R$ at its center is a quaternion division algebra.

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