How to compute the Wedderburn decomposition of a finite-dimensional associative algebra

DOI10.1515/gcc.2011.003zbMath1250.16018arXiv1008.2006MaRDI QIDQ2882824

Murray R. Bremner

Publication date: 7 May 2012

Published in: Groups – Complexity – Cryptology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2006

zbMATH Keywords

algorithms; matrix algebras; representations; radicals; transformation semigroups; Wedderburn decompositions; finite-dimensional associative algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

16S50: Endomorphism rings; matrix rings

16P10: Finite rings and finite-dimensional associative algebras

20M20: Semigroups of transformations, relations, partitions, etc.

16D70: Structure and classification for modules, bimodules and ideals (except as in 16Gxx), direct sum decomposition and cancellation in associative algebras)

16G10: Representations of associative Artinian rings

20M25: Semigroup rings, multiplicative semigroups of rings

16K20: Finite-dimensional division rings

16Z05: Computational aspects of associative rings (general theory)

16-04: Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to associative rings and algebras

20M30: Representation of semigroups; actions of semigroups on sets

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