Division algebras and the Hausdorff-Banach-Tarski paradox

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Authors Pierre Deligne, Dennis Sullivan

Publication date 1983

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Brauer groupdivision algebrasfree groupalgebraic number fieldaxiom of choicefree action on spheresHausdorff- Banach-Tarski paradoxHopf's index theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Quadratic extensions (11R11) Axiom of choice and related propositions (03E25) Division rings and semisimple Artin rings (16Kxx)

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• Word equations in simple groups and polynomial equations in simple algebras.
• Equations in simple matrix groups: algebra, geometry, arithmetic, dynamics.
• Equations in simple Lie algebras
• Evaluations of noncommutative polynomials on algebras: methods and problems, and the L'vov-Kaplansky conjecture

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