Separating subspaces of skewfields (Q1896655)

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Separating subspaces of skewfields
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    Separating subspaces of skewfields (English)
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    22 January 1996
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    Let \(L\) be a skew field with a central subfield \(K\) and let \(\dim_KL=n\). The author proves that if \(A\) and \(B\) are nonzero subspaces of the \(K\)-vector space \(L\) and \(\dim A+\dim B\leq n\), then there exists \(x\) in \(L^*\) such that \(xA\cap B=0\).
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    skew field
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    central subfield
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