Weakly Azumaya algebras (Q1602016)

The authors generalize the notions of weak crossed products and Azumaya algebras under the class title ``weakly Azumaya algebras''. Among their results is a Wedderburn principal theorem (in the case where the center is a field). Their new monoid (which actually generalizes the Brauer group) is a union of groups they call ``stalks'', in each of which the unit element is represented by an idempotent algebra. For illustrative purposes, at the end of the paper, they provide an appendix that focuses upon weak Azumaya algebras of dimension less than 16 over a field.